by 2018, a large majority of newly built social housing in england was created for affordable rent instead of the often much lower social rent, while the proportion of new-build social housing using affordable rent has been much less significant in wales and scotland where most new-build social housing continues to be built for social rent levels, while in northern ireland the affordable rent product has not been used. meanwhile, in london more than 10,000 existing properties that were previously let at social rent levels have been changed to affordable rent. though housing benefit tenants, exempt as they are from lha rates, are not directly effected by the move towards "affordable" as opposed to social rents, a large number of in-work tenants who many not qualify for any housing benefit will be directly effected by the higher rents. the number of people sleeping rough on any one night across england had more than doubled between 2010 and 2016 to an estimated 4,134, according to a government street count.