OPINION - I can barely afford rent – and I’m a privileged journalist with a job

About £600 a month. That’s what I was paying back in 2020 for a room in a three-bedroom flat in Queen’s Road Peckham (Zone 2, no Tube). Admittedly, it didn’t have a living room and the bathroom was permanently green with mould – but on the plus side I had a personal balcony (read: awkward triangle of cement).