Every time I see a journalist listing the work they're most proud of in 2017, I consider contributing but just end up in tears over the Grenfell Tower fire. I've covered housing for years. It's an unpopular beat.
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I worked at Inside Housing magazine before but was laid off due to staffing cuts. The usual story across the media. And now I struggle endlessly with the guilt of knowing that everything I don't follow up could end in a terrible situation.
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I've slept terribly since the fire, and when people ask how you've coped you don't tell them you haven't. I watched the fire, I didn't escape it. My trauma is minimal in comparison. But I don't feel I can ever do enough for those who died or escaped.
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The world is terrible at the moment: as soon as one catastrophe ends another has begun. I just don't feel that we have the media to report it any more, and as budgets shrink so does our coverage in spite of our will.
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The Guardian get a lot of stick for the pop ups asking for contributions, but in the midst of the fire I was proud of almost all of our coverage, our team and just wished we had greater capacity. I worry that's unlikely in the future given the media landscape.
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You can't be expected to know everything. Keep looking for the big picture, which to me is the steady run down of housing standards and housing rights going back decades. Almost everything in housing can be traced back to those
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And you've done a great job of keeping it in people's minds
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