Latest Fact-Checks In Housing

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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 Shasha 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
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
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
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
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
stated on November 20, 2019 a public forum
Says since he took office, the City of Milwaukee has seen the creation of 7,000 new affordable housing units.
True
By D.L. Davis • February 17, 2020
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