(a) Utilizing no more than ten million five hundred thousand dollars ($10,500,000) of the combined one-time funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2021 and the Budget Act of 2022 for the purposes of the CalWORKs Housing Support Program (Article 3.3 (commencing with Section 11330) of Chapter 2 of Part 3), the Home Safe Program (Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 15770) of Part 3), the Bringing Families Home Program (Article 6 (commencing with Section 16523) of Chapter 5 of Part 4), and the Housing and Disability Income Advocacy Program (Chapter 17 (commencing with Section 18999) of Part 6), the department may contract with one or more vendors for the purpose of establishing a system to collect data and track outcomes, and may, in consultation with the Legislature, the County Welfare Directors Association of California, advocates for clients, and housing and homelessness stakeholders, contract with one or more independent evaluation and research agencies to evaluate the impacts of each of these programs, which may include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (1) Outcomes for recipients, including achievement of housing stability. (2) Demographic information about recipients. (3) The likelihood of future homelessness and housing instability among recipients. (4) Program costs and benefits. (b) Program evaluation efforts described in subdivision (a) shall complement evaluation efforts specified in subdivision (g) of Section 15771. (c) Utilizing no more than ten million five hundred thousand dollars ($10,500,000) of the one-time funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2021, and no more than ten million five hundred thousand dollars ($10,500,000) of the one-time funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2022 in a manner consistent with the purpose of this subdivision, for the purposes of the CalWORKs Housing Support Program (Article 3.3 (commencing with Section 11330) of Chapter 2 of Part 3), the Home Safe Program (Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 15770) of Part 3), the Bringing Families Home Program (Article 6 (commencing with Section 16523) of Chapter 5 of Part 4), and the Housing and Disability Income Advocacy Program (Chapter 17 (commencing with Section 18999) of Part 6), the department may, in consultation with the Legislature, County Welfare Directors Association of California, advocates for clients, and housing and homelessness stakeholders, contract with one or more entities to provide technical assistance for each of these programs, which may include, but is not limited to, all of the following: (1) Implementing and administering programs that incorporate evidence-based and emerging promising practices in homeless assistance and homelessness prevention that support the advancement of racial equity. (2) Scaling housing navigation and location services. (3) Coordination and integration between the social services department, homelessness system of care, and health systems. (4) Streamlining administrative efficiencies. (5) Data collection and reporting, outcomes monitoring, and continuous quality improvement. (d) On or before February 1 of each year, the department shall report annually to the Legislature, in accordance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, on all of the following: (1) Detailed information on the dollar amounts and entities for contracts entered into and other activities funded pursuant to the amounts authorized in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c). (2) Data regarding implementation for each of the programs specified in subdivision (a), including all of the following: (A) All actual expenditures against the total appropriations provided, noting funds remaining and expenditure deadlines. If the program is subject to a regional allocation approach, this information shall be provided by region. (B) For the state as a whole and on a regional basis, the number of requests for service, where available, the number of families or individuals approved to receive program services as applicable to each prog
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