There were 8 articles. Two of them overlapped others in some respects
They didn't overlap. One was sourced from exclusively from aneki.com and one from Mercer.
I'm still waiting for your 'well researched' alternatives. Since you've provided nothing, these nine surveys are the best we've got. Do you have anything constructive to add? What would a 'good' survey look like to you? Do you know of any? Have you looked for alternative surveys? No...
On the other hand, after reading the Demographia survey last year, I spent some time researching and compiling a list of alternative surveys, all of which I have posted here for the benefit of others who may be interested. Better to consider nine individual viewpoints, rather than just the one that suits us best, right?
So you would contend that "alternative" views with equally poor or absent methodologies add to the debate? Nine poorly researched or unreferenced pieces of research are no improvement on 1 poorly researched or unreferenced piece of research.
Unless of course your just playing to the crowd.
I would have though that if you were genuinely interested in the research rather than simple link mining for anything that supports your position you might have come across, I don't know, these:
Ableson, P. & Chung, D. 2004, ‘Housing prices in Australia: 1970 to 2003’, Macquarie University Economics Research Papers, no. 9/2004, September.
Abelson P. and Chung, D. 2005, ‘The real story of housing prices in Australia from 1970 to 2003’, Australian Economic Review, vol. 38, no. 3, pp 265–81.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2007a, Housing Occupancy and Costs, Australia 2005-06, Summary of findings, cat. no. 4130.0.55.001, 31 October.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2007c, Media Fact Sheet. More than one in 25Australians need help with basic activities, 27 June.
Australian Government, 2008a, ‘Making housing affordable again’, http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/vIA/housing_affordable/$File/making_housing_affordable_again.pdf
Australian Government, 2008b, National Rental Affordability Scheme technical discussion paper, released May 2008.
Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, 2003, AHURI Research and Policy Bulletin, Issue 16, February.
Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Southern Research Centre, 2006, ‘No easy solution: housing options for low income South Australians’, Research and Policy Bulletin, Adelaide.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2007b, Older Australia at a glance: 4th edition. Cat. No. AGE 52. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2008a, Housing Assistance in Australia, Cat. No. HOU173. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2008b, ‘Public rental housing 2006 07:Commonwealth State Housing Agreement national data report’, Housing Assistance data development series, Cat. No. HOU 170, Canberra, AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2008c, ‘Community housing 2006 07:Commonwealth State Housing Agreement national data reports’, Housing assistance development series, Cat. No. HOU 172, Canberra, AIHW.
Australian National Audit Office 2008, 'Preparation of the Tax Expenditures Statement', Audit report no. 32, Canberra.
Bank for International Settlements 2006, ‘Housing finance in the global financial market’, Committee on the Global Financial System Papers, no. 26, January.
Battellino, R. 2007, ‘Some observations on financial trends’, Reserve Bank Bulletin, October.
Birrell, B. & Healy, E. 2008, ‘Melbourne's population surge’, Centre for Population and Urban Research Bulletin, March.
Burke, T. 2007, ‘Experiencing the housing affordability problem: blocked aspirations, trade-offs and financial hardships’, paper presented to the Financial Review Housing Congress.
Committee of Inquiry into Housing Costs 1978, The Cost of Housing: Volume 1: Report, Canberra.
Debelle, G. 2004, ‘Household debt and the macroeocnomy’, BIS Quarterly Review, March, pp 51-64.
Debelle, G. 2008, ‘A Comparison of the US and Australian Housing Markets’, Address to the Sub-prime Mortgage Meltdown Symposium, Adelaide, 16 May.
Demographia 2008, 4th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey (written by Wendell Cox and Hugh Pavletich with introduction by Don Brash).
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Edmund Rice Centre 2007, ‘Home truths: the housing crisis in Australia', Just Comment, Vol 10, No. 6, Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community
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So? That's no reason to derail threads with sneering comments just because other people may be interested in housing affordability surveys and you are not.
Not sneering, questioning. And though I may not be passionate about home affordability, based on the selective "research" you're engaged in, it's pretty apparent you aren't either.
Judging by the kudos I have received for my posts in this thread (thanks guys) you are in the minority here TF. Most people here seem to appreciate the alternative surveys that I posted.
So it*is* about playing to the crowd
Sorry.
No need to be.
