California Code, Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 16517

(A) To prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their families because of homelessness or the lack of shelter.

(B) To assist in the reunification of foster children and their families when housing remains a problem.

(A) The county department of social services shall make the determination, pursuant to Section 553 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (P.L. 101-625), that an eligible child is at imminent risk of placement in out-of-home care or that an eligible child in out-of-home care under its supervision may be returned to his or her family.

(B) The county department of social services shall certify an eligible family as one for which the lack of adequate housing is a primary factor in the imminent placement of the family's child or children in out-of-home care or in the delayed discharge of a child or children to the family from out-of-home care.

(C) The county department of social services shall transmit, in writing, its certification pursuant to subparagraph (B) to the local public housing agency responsible, pursuant to Section 34327.3 of the Health and Safety Code, for administering assistance under the Section 8 housing certificate program.