![]() ![]() ![]() The agency also suffered from underinvestment by governments. Unfortunately the foundation of the agency coincided with that year’s world financial crisis, which plunged some housing associations towards insolvency. “So it needed something big and exciting to persuade me to leave, but this seemed to me to be a fantastic opportunity. “I immensely enjoyed my time in Sheffield,” he told the Times in 2008. He was lured by the prospect of heading the new Home and Communities Agency, which was intended to be a unifying body, boosting house building, particularly to provide affordable homes. Even after he left Sheffield, he kept a house in the city, close to the Peak District where he could take his dog for long walks. Kerslake had a reputation for working long hours – he was known to phone journalists for interviews at 7am – and came to be called “whispering Bob” because of his quiet way of speaking. Bob Kerslake, second right, in 2018, chairing the independent review into the Manchester Arena bombing. ![]()
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