article_snippet.sent: Ruth Davison, of the National Housing Federation, which represents housing associations, has a£1million home in fashionable Islington, north London.
article_snippet.sent: the Labour candidate for Islington South and Finsbury said: ‘I don’t have a problem per se with people being able to buy people council flat or council house, so long as it is replaced like for like. '
article_snippet.sent: Housing fat cat who hates right to buy is a Labour supporter with £1m home .
article_snippet.sent: Ruth Davison is a Labour party member and the owner of a £1million house in Islington, London .
article_snippet.sent: The leading critic of Conservative Party plans to give housing association tenants a right to buy herself lives in a £1million house.
article_snippet.sent: As director of policy and external affairs at the National Housing Federation, Ruth Davison has been leading the campaign to prevent millions of people getting a real chance of owning their own homes.
article_snippet.sent: But just as Ruth Davison did not advertise the fact that Ruth Davison is a member of Ruth Davison local Labour party in Islington, North London, neither has Ruth Davison revealed just how comfortable Ruth Davison own house is.
article_snippet.sent: In reality Ruth Davison has been one of the country’s biggest gainers from the private property boom.
article_snippet.sent: Ruth Davison also earned hefty salaries in public bodies for years when Labour was in power.
article_snippet.sent: Miss Davison, 44, and husband Chris Bailey, 47, who describes himself as an ‘urban regenerator, non-profit board member and social entrepreneur’, bought a large terrace house in Islington for £440,000 ten years ago.
article_snippet.sent: Yet on behalf of the fat-cat housing association bosses she speaks for, Ruth Davison has been across the newspapers and broadcasters this week fighting to stop the Conservative election campaign proposal to extend ‘right to buy’ legislation from council house tenants to the 2.7million people living in housing association properties.
article_snippet.sent: Ruth Davison told the BBC in response to the Tory right-to-buy plans on Tuesday that it was wrong to effectively give money to ‘some of the most securely housed people in the country on some of the lowest rents’.
article_snippet.sent: Ruth Davison added: ‘We are independent organisations and charities – you can no more force a housing association to sell independent organisations and charities assets at less than independent organisations and charities’re worth than you can force Tesco, or even Cancer Research.
article_snippet.sent: Last night Ruth Davison Ruth Davison said: ‘The price of a family house is now beyond the reach of many –