This paper compares the home-moving patterns of Hong Kong citizens in the periods of 1996 2001 and 2001 2006, highlighted by economic downturns, population reformations and subsequent housing policies adjustments during the second period.
Before the downturn, Manteca, population 67,700, and other towns in the northern San Joaquin Valley were on the leading edge of growth, with stucco subdivisions carved out of almond orchards.
"When we have economic downturn the population doesn't go crazy.
OSSPAC predicts a mass-displacement event and a long-term population downturn.
"The economic downturn hit this population very hard," Ms. Cruz said.
In some cases, the effects of the population downturn are immediate, especially after so many years of emigration.
John Walton, the trust's property manager for the Farne Islands and the Northumberland coast, said that in almost 30 years of working with the Farne puffins this was the first downturn in the population he had witnessed.
Maraniss describes a fascinating, prescient study by Wayne State sociologists that predicted the population downturn and the concomitant decline in the tax base that in fact occurred in Detroit.
Both the economic downturn and the Hispanic population surge are prompting brands to rethink their strategies, said Alain Groenendaal, chief executive of Wing, a unit of the Grey Group, owned by WPP, that focuses on Latino marketing.
The notion that higher levels of education are associated with corporate fraud ("Downturn and Shift in Population Feed Boom in White-Collar Crime," front page, June 2) might seem counterintuitive to some, but it is not surprising to those of us who work in the area of academic dishonesty.
