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Latest Fact-Checks In Housing

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John Macco
John Macco
stated on April 18, 2022 Twitter:
Says Gov. Tony Evers "wanted to increase your taxes by $1 billion just for heating your homes. Instead, Republicans cut your taxes by more than $2 billion."
Half-True
By Madeline Heim • May 6, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 23, 2022 a Facebook post:
American taxpayer dollars provide “free housing, free medical, free state identification” to immigrants in the country illegally.
False
By Madison Czopek • January 31, 2022
Joe Volk
Joe Volk
stated on November 17, 2021 TV interview:
“In Wisconsin, we have 50% of the population paying 50%, 60%, 70%, sometimes 80% for their housing.”
False
By Vanessa Swales • January 7, 2022
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on August 9, 2021 a tweet:
“California is moving folks out of encampments, into safe housing and getting them the mental health services they need.”
Half-True
By Sasha Hupka • September 11, 2021
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on August 27, 2021 Twitter:
End of eviction moratorium means “millions of Americans” could lose their housing in the middle of a pandemic.
True
By D.L. Davis • September 3, 2021
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.”
Mostly False
By Emily Tian • 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
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 24, 2021 a Facebook post:
Says Ivanka Trump was targeted in the Florida condominium building collapse.
False
By Tom Kertscher • June 25, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 18, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says Joe Biden said, “I lived in Section 8 housing as a little boy.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • October 19, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 29, 2020 the first presidential debate:
“Suburbs are by and large integrated.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2020
Patricia McCloskey
Patricia McCloskey
stated on August 24, 2020 a speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention:
Democrats and Joe Biden “want to abolish the suburbs altogether by ending single-family home zoning.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • August 25, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 16, 2020 a Wall Street Journal op-ed:
“For the past three years, the state senator who represents Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco, has led a push to abolish single-family zoning in California.”
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • August 17, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2020 press briefing in Bedminster, N.J.:
“The Democrats don’t want to do anything having to do with protecting people from eviction.”
False
By Sophie Austin • August 13, 2020
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on August 2, 2020 a tweet:
“34% of Wisconsin renters are at risk of eviction.”
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • August 12, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 8, 2020 a Facebook post:
President Donald Trump “put a hold on ALL EVICTIONS through December.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 10, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 9, 2020 on social media:
Say that according to the Los Angeles Times, “95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens,” more than two-thirds of all births in Los Angeles County “are to illegal alien Mexicans” on Medicaid, “nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal,” and Nancy Pelosi “wants to put a windfall tax” on retirement fund profits.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 10, 2020 a USA Today op-ed:
“Today, the gap between African American and white homeownership is larger than it was in the late 1960s.”
True
By Miriam Valverde • June 11, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2020 a Facebook post:
If you paid rent in March or April, “they got to give” you your money back.
False
By Tom Kertscher • May 20, 2020
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on February 19, 2020 a State of the State Address:
"Back in 2005, when we did that first point-in-time count, there were over 188,000 thousand people that were deemed homeless in the state of California. … That’s 35,000 more than we have today.”
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • February 21, 2020
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
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