A combination of rising costs of renting, low wages and freezes to benefits could cause more than one million households to become homeless.
Rising rent, benefit freezes and a lack of social housing mean that more than a million households living in private rented accommodation are at risk of being homeless by 2020, according to a new report into the UK’s housing crisis called Shut out: households put at risk of homelessness by the housing benefit freeze.

Refuse workers at Birmingham city council are set to strike as claims of ‘a bullying culture’ and ‘financial incompetence’ have unveiled.
Members of Unite, the country’s largest union, will strike on Friday 30 June. There will also be a series of two-hour stoppages commencing on 3, 11, 19 and 27 July and 4 August. There will also be an overtime ban wth workers adhering to their contracted hours, plus returning to depots for all lunch and tea breaks, also starting on 30 June.

The public sector pay cap should be cut in recognition of the work of the emergency services following recent events, says Tim Farron.
The pay cap, which came about in 2012, limits pay rises for public sector workers to one per cent a year until 2020.
Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat leader who recently announced his decision to step down from his party's leadership, said firefighters, police and medical staff ‘deserve so much better’.
Ministers have said that wage restraint in the public sector helps to protect jobs and repairs the public finances.

A survey conducted by the Energy Institute has found that industry professionals believe the energy policy is ‘on pause’.
The UK’s target of cutting carbon emissions by over half within 13 years is at risk because of government indecisiveness on energy policy, industry professionals have said.
Four fifths of the Energy Institute, who conducted the survey, believe the UK is currently on track to miss the 2030 goal.

The number of high-rise buildings which have failed a combustibility test is now 60 across 25 local authority areas.
Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government, released a statement which detailed the work being done to ensure the safety of residents in high-rise buildings following he Grenfell Tower fire.
The number of high-rise buildings with cladding which has failed a combustibility test at the Building Research Establishment is now 60. All landlords have been alerted to the results.

The Environment Agency is set to launch an online public consultation into the detailed design of the Oxford flood alleviation scheme.
Communities are being called on by the Environment Agency to have their say on benefits and features that will make up the £120 million project to reduce flood risk to all homes and businesses in Oxford.

The mayor of London has called an urgent meeting with the new environment secretary to press him to act on Britain’s toxic air quality.
Khan has activated London’s emergency alert system after experts warned toxic air in the capital had risen to dangerous levels. Other areas affected include southern England and Wales.
There has been growing pressure on the government over the air pollution crisis, which causes 40,000 deaths annually in the UK.

The number of families finding themselves homeless over the past year has risen by nearly a fifth on five years ago.

Greener UK has published its first Brexit Risk Tracker, which reflect the risks to environmental policy throughout the Brexit process.

Gloucester City Council will set up a Property Investment Board to make decisions on buying and selling properties to raise council funds.
The Property Investment Strategy has been put forward as a way of helping to deliver the city council's draft Council Plan, detailing how property investment could raise funds which will help to protect council services into the future.