The Prime Minister is complaining about research that shows housing affordability in NZ is amongst the worse because it is too selective;
She said the survey's sample of countries was too small and lacked enough European nations to have any real meaning.
The survey found New Zealand the least affordable place compared with Australia, the United States, Ireland, Canada and Britain.
Permanent and long term departures by country of arrival shows that main countries are the Australia (33,792), United Kingdom (11,940), USA (2,709) and China (2,695).
It seems sensible and relevant to compare NZ to those countries NZers are most likely to move to.
Helen Clark told TVNZ that the survey cited only six countries, and omitted other countries such as France, Sweden, Austria, Germany and Spain.
But none of these countries rates a mention in the destination list of long-term departures. So OK, Demographia may have been wrong to claim NZ was the worst in the world, but it is probably worst in the 'world' that is relevant to Kiwis. In that sense the survey does have "real meaning."
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Clark is able to make the debate about the research, so we argue about which countries are included, which are not, and why any comparison is, or is not, valid.
Obfuscation.
The debate should be about how unaffordable housing is in New Zealand.
Soon Queen Helen Canute will be passing retrospective legislation to force the Sun to come up on the west.
If only these morons could see the damage being inflicted on NZ.
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