Latest Fact-Checks In Housing

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Darrell Steinberg
Darrell Steinberg
stated on October 24, 2019 an interview with Capital Public Radio
"90,000 Californians are unsheltered and homeless." 
True
By Chris Nichols • October 31, 2019
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
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 23, 2019 an interview on "Axios on HBO"
"The vast majority" of San Francisco’s homeless people "also come in from — and we know this — from Texas. Just (an) interesting fact."
Pants on Fire!
By Chris Nichols • August 14, 2019
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on July 15, 2019 a hearing
"Studies show at the minimum wage, you can’t rent a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the United States...a modest, two-bedroom apartment."  
True
By Warren Fiske • July 30, 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
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 22, 2019 a CNN town hall
"You've got millions of families paying 40, 50, 60% of their limited incomes to put a roof over their heads."
True
By Yanqi Xu • May 2, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on April 22, 2019 a CNN town hall in New Hampshire
Speaking of the financial crisis that gained traction in 2007, "I talked about it to anyone who would listen, a crisis is coming."
True
By Miriam Valverde • April 30, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 5, 2019 posts on the Internet
"Right here (in West Virginia), they are building new houses … so that 321 Syrian Muslims can move down into this neighborhood in two months. … (A funeral home) is to be torn down in two months, and a mosque is going to built there."
Pants on Fire!
By Liz Newton, Mary Alice Truitt, Patrick Orsagos • March 27, 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.
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • March 17, 2019
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on September 14, 2018 a tweet
"West Virginia added the highest percentage of new construction jobs in 2017 in the United States, at 14.4%. This amounted to 4,300 additional jobs! In fact, #WV was the only state with double-digit growth!"
True
By Adrianne Uphold • November 2, 2018
John Cox
John Cox
stated on October 8, 2018 a campaign debate
Says Gavin Newsom "didn’t solve the homeless problem at all" as mayor of San Francisco, "and it’s gotten worse."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • October 8, 2018
Yes on 10 campaign
Yes on 10 campaign
stated on September 28, 2018 a TV advertisement
California’s rent control measure Proposition 10 would have "No effect on homeowners"
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • October 5, 2018
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on September 10, 2018 a campaign speech
"Close to half of the children" in California are "at or near poverty," when you consider cost-of-living.
True
By Chris Nichols • September 19, 2018
John Cox
John Cox
stated on July 30, 2018 a Fox Business Network interview
"Fully half the people — our research is showing half the people — in (California) want to leave."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • September 6, 2018
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
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 19, 2018 a tweet
"In 99 percent of counties in America, someone making the minimum wage working full time can’t afford a 1-bedroom apartment."
Mostly True
By Lucia Geng • July 25, 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on July 23, 2018 a tweet
In New York City, "for every one person experiencing homelessness here, there are about three vacant apartments."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 25, 2018
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on May 8, 2018 a campaign debate
"In San Francisco, we were successful in reducing our street population 40 percent. We got 12,000 people off the street."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • May 10, 2018
Kevin Nicholson
Kevin Nicholson
stated on April 19, 2018 news release
Says conservative mega-donor Richard Uihlein is a Wisconsin resident.
False
By D.L. Davis • May 4, 2018
Travis Allen
Travis Allen
stated on March 8, 2018
"Homelessness has skyrocketed across California. We have the nation’s highest homelessness rate and the nation’s highest homeless population."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • March 27, 2018
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