Latest Fact-Checks In Housing

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JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on November 13, 2025 an interview
Housing is expensive “because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants” and because of a housing shortage.
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By Samantha Putterman • November 20, 2025
stated on October 9, 2025 remarks on CNN
As the Trump administration pursues mortgage fraud charges against Letitia James, “there are three Cabinet members who committed mortgage fraud that he’s just letting fly.”
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By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2025
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 16, 2024 una publicación en Instagram
Una ley en Estados Unidos dice “si una casa no está habitada, podemos expropiarla”.
Mostly False
By Maria Briceño • April 9, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 16, 2024 an Instagram post
A U.S. law says that “if a house is not inhabited, we can expropriate it.”
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By Maria Briceño • April 5, 2024
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on April 21, 2023 a tweet
“Buyers with good credit scores will pay even more to cover for those with bad credit."
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • May 3, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 29, 2021 an image
“It would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the U.S.” and “halting global warming would cost $300 billion.”
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August 27, 2021
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on August 1, 2021 a tweet
"The CDC has the power to extend the eviction moratorium.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2021
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 19, 2020 the Las Vegas debate
“Mayor Bloomberg was busy blaming African Americans and Latinos for the housing crisis in 2008.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • February 20, 2020
Tammy Duckworth
Tammy Duckworth
stated on September 16, 2019 a tweet
Says President Trump’s administration has "actually worsened our nation’s homelessness crisis" by cutting affordable housing programs, allowing shelters to refuse people based on gender identity or sexual orientation, evicting immigrant families of mixed legal status from subsidized housing and raising rent.
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • September 20, 2019
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on May 21, 2019 a tweet
More than 100,000 people are waiting for public housing in Houston and people who are in the country illegally are taking their spaces.
Mostly False
By Madlin Mekelburg • May 30, 2019
Toni Preckwinkle
Toni Preckwinkle
stated on March 12, 2019 a debate
Says that "despite the tremendous amounts of money that have gone into it, only 400 family (housing) units have been created" in the last 12 years through Chicago’s Affordable Requirements Ordinance.
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • March 17, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 25, 2018 a blog post
"SHOCK REPORT: Senator McCaskill BUSTED Funneling Millions of Tax Dollars to Her Hubby."
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • August 1, 2018
Crystal Quade
Crystal Quade
stated on August 9, 2017 a letter
"The governor’s cuts would kick over 8,000 people out of their homes."
Mostly False
By Allie Pecorin, Katie Parkins • September 10, 2017
Philip Levine
Philip Levine
stated on March 2, 2017 a post on Facebook
Says Airbnb "decreases real estate values and increases costs for workforce housing."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 20, 2017
Chad Mayes
Chad Mayes
stated on January 17, 2017 a speech.
"Legislators themselves cannot afford to buy housing in California."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • February 8, 2017
Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson
stated on October 9, 2015 a blog post
"Paul Ryan is one of less than a dozen Republican congressmen to have voted for every bailout to come before Congress."  
Mostly False
October 15, 2015
Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
stated on January 10, 2015 a tweet
"Common welfare programs give income of $43,330 or $20.83 an hour."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 1, 2015
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on November 30, 2014 an interview
"A single parent with a couple kids can easily get $35,000 a year" in public assistance in Wisconsin. 
Mostly False
December 12, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 29, 2014 a meme on social media
Says Sen. Elizabeth Warren "lives in a $5.4 million mansion."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2014
Bill Foster
Bill Foster
stated on September 10, 2013 a mayoral forum
"Tampa got more (federal housing) money because they scored higher on the blight scoring system, so they've got a much bigger problem than we do."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • September 18, 2013
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