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APPROVED: Permanent Housing Support Services Standards.

Effective July 1, 2016, The Joint Commission Behavioral Health Care Accreditation Program will include permanent housing support services standards related to a “housing first” program model. The new standards, which are designed to assist individuals with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, or other behavioral health care issues, will appear in the “Care, Treatment, and Services” ...

The VITA Financial Services Sales Support Environment

Knowledge-based recommender technologies support customers and sales representatives in the identification of appropriate products and services. These technologies are especially useful for complex and high involvement products such as cars, computers, or financial services. In this paper we present the VITA (Virtualis Tanacsado) financial services recommendation environment which has been depl...

Unemployment, Financial Frictions, and the Housing Market

We develop and calibrate a two-sector, search-matching model of the labor market augmented to incorporate a housing market and a frictional goods market. The labor market is divided into a construction sector and a non-housing sector, and there is perfect mobility of unemployed workers across sectors. In the frictional goods market households, who lack commitment, …nance random consumption oppo...

Financial frictions, the housing market, and unemployment

We develop a two-sector search-matching model of the labor market with imperfect mobility of workers, augmented to incorporate a housing market and a frictional goods market. Homeowners use home equity as collateral to …nance idiosyncratic consumption opportunities. A …nancial innovation that raises the acceptability of homes as collateral raises house prices and reduces unemployment. It also t...

Minister of Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities, the Republic of Sri Lanka