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Fourthly, they would include the provision of social rent housing as defined in regulation specifically for the purposes of preparing spatial development strategies. As currently drafted, the Bill encourages local authorities to consider the need for affordable housing in preparing their spatial development strategies. This includes tenures such as low-cost ownership and affordable rents as high as 80% of market rents. Neither of these tenures are truly affordable or accessible. The creation of a new planning system that delivers more unaffordable tenures will only exacerbate the housing emergency and social housing waiting lists of 1 million households already.