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The Gateway Pundit
stated on September 1, 2022 in in an article:

Bank of America “announced a new mortgage home loan program for first-time homebuyers. But only blacks and Hispanics will be eligible.”

By Gabrielle Settles • September 6, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 23, 2022 in an Instagram post:

"Under Greg Abbott, property taxes have gone up $20 billion."

By Nusaiba Mizan • May 19, 2022
Charlie Crist
stated on May 4, 2022 in a press conference:

“It costs more to live in many Florida cities than New York City.”

By Yacob Reyes • May 16, 2022
John Macco
stated on April 18, 2022 in 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."

By Madeline Heim • May 6, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on January 23, 2022 in a Facebook post:

American taxpayer dollars provide “free housing, free medical, free state identification” to immigrants in the country illegally.

By Madison Czopek • January 31, 2022
Joe Volk
stated on November 17, 2021 in TV interview:

“In Wisconsin, we have 50% of the population paying 50%, 60%, 70%, sometimes 80% for their housing.”

By Vanessa Swales • January 7, 2022
Gavin Newsom
stated on August 9, 2021 in a tweet:

“California is moving folks out of encampments, into safe housing and getting them the mental health services they need.”

By Sasha Hupka • September 11, 2021
Mark Pocan
stated on August 27, 2021 in Twitter:

End of eviction moratorium means “millions of Americans” could lose their housing in the middle of a pandemic.

By D.L. Davis • September 3, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 29, 2021 in an image:

“It would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the U.S.” and “halting global warming would cost $300 billion.”

By Emily Tian • August 27, 2021
Nancy Pelosi
stated on August 1, 2021 in a tweet:

"The CDC has the power to extend the eviction moratorium.”

By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on June 24, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says Ivanka Trump was targeted in the Florida condominium building collapse.

By Tom Kertscher • June 25, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on October 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says Joe Biden said, “I lived in Section 8 housing as a little boy.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • October 19, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 29, 2020 in the first presidential debate:

“Suburbs are by and large integrated.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2020
Patricia McCloskey
stated on August 24, 2020 in a speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention:

Democrats and Joe Biden “want to abolish the suburbs altogether by ending single-family home zoning.”

By Bill McCarthy • August 25, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on August 16, 2020 in 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.”

By Chris Nichols • August 17, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2020 in press briefing in Bedminster, N.J.:

“The Democrats don’t want to do anything having to do with protecting people from eviction.”

By Sophie Austin • August 13, 2020
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on August 2, 2020 in a tweet:

“34% of Wisconsin renters are at risk of eviction.”

By D.L. Davis • August 12, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on August 8, 2020 in a Facebook post:

President Donald Trump “put a hold on ALL EVICTIONS through December.”

By Louis Jacobson • August 10, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on July 9, 2020 in 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.

By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on June 10, 2020 in a USA Today op-ed:

“Today, the gap between African American and white homeownership is larger than it was in the late 1960s.”

By Miriam Valverde • June 11, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2020 in a Facebook post:

If you paid rent in March or April, “they got to give” you your money back.

By Tom Kertscher • May 20, 2020
Gavin Newsom
stated on February 19, 2020 in 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.”

By Chris Nichols • February 20, 2020
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 19, 2020 in the Las Vegas debate:

“Mayor Bloomberg was busy blaming African Americans and Latinos for the housing crisis in 2008.”

By Amy Sherman • February 20, 2020
Tom Barrett
stated on November 20, 2019 in a public forum:

Says since he took office, the City of Milwaukee has seen the creation of 7,000 new affordable housing units.

By D.L. Davis • February 17, 2020
Darrell Steinberg
stated on October 24, 2019 in an interview with Capital Public Radio:

"90,000 Californians are unsheltered and homeless."

By Chris Nichols • October 31, 2019
Tammy Duckworth
stated on September 16, 2019 in 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.

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • September 20, 2019
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 23, 2019 in 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."

By Chris Nichols • August 14, 2019
Bobby Scott
stated on July 15, 2019 in 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."

By Warren Fiske • July 30, 2019
Ben Carson
stated on May 21, 2019 in 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.

By Madlin Mekelburg • May 30, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 22, 2019 in 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."

By Yanqi Xu • May 2, 2019

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