Latest Fact-checks in Housing Clear Any Rating True Mostly True Half True Mostly False False Pants on Fire Full Flop Half Flip No Flip Any Speaker Any Date Range Last 3 Months Last 6 Months Last 12 Months 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Any Category 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.” 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.” Democratic Party of Wisconsin stated on August 2, 2020 in a tweet: “34% of Wisconsin renters are at risk of eviction.” Facebook posts stated on August 8, 2020 in a Facebook post: President Donald Trump “put a hold on ALL EVICTIONS through December.” 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. 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.” 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. 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.” 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.” 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. Darrell Steinberg stated on October 24, 2019 in an interview with Capital Public Radio: "90,000 Californians are unsheltered and homeless." 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. 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." 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." 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. 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." Elizabeth Warren stated on April 22, 2019 in 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." Facebook posts stated on March 5, 2019 in 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." Toni Preckwinkle stated on March 12, 2019 in 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. West Virginia Republican Party stated on September 14, 2018 in 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!" John Cox stated on October 8, 2018 in a campaign debate: Says Gavin Newsom "didn’t solve the homeless problem at all" as mayor of San Francisco, "and it’s gotten worse." Yes on 10 campaign stated on September 28, 2018 in a TV advertisement: California’s rent control measure Proposition 10 would have "No effect on homeowners" Gavin Newsom stated on September 10, 2018 in a campaign speech: "Close to half of the children" in California are "at or near poverty," when you consider cost-of-living. John Cox stated on July 30, 2018 in a Fox Business Network interview: "Fully half the people — our research is showing half the people — in (California) want to leave." Bloggers stated on July 25, 2018 in a blog post: "SHOCK REPORT: Senator McCaskill BUSTED Funneling Millions of Tax Dollars to Her Hubby." Kamala Harris stated on July 19, 2018 in a tweet: "In 99 percent of counties in America, someone making the minimum wage working full time can’t afford a 1-bedroom apartment." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated on July 23, 2018 in a tweet: In New York City, "for every one person experiencing homelessness here, there are about three vacant apartments." Gavin Newsom stated on May 8, 2018 in a campaign debate: "In San Francisco, we were successful in reducing our street population 40 percent. We got 12,000 people off the street." Kevin Nicholson stated on April 19, 2018 in news release: Says conservative mega-donor Richard Uihlein is a Wisconsin resident. 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."
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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.” 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.” Democratic Party of Wisconsin stated on August 2, 2020 in a tweet: “34% of Wisconsin renters are at risk of eviction.” Facebook posts stated on August 8, 2020 in a Facebook post: President Donald Trump “put a hold on ALL EVICTIONS through December.” 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. 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.” 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. 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.” 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.” 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. Darrell Steinberg stated on October 24, 2019 in an interview with Capital Public Radio: "90,000 Californians are unsheltered and homeless." 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. 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." 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." 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. 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." Elizabeth Warren stated on April 22, 2019 in 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." Facebook posts stated on March 5, 2019 in 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." Toni Preckwinkle stated on March 12, 2019 in 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. West Virginia Republican Party stated on September 14, 2018 in 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!" John Cox stated on October 8, 2018 in a campaign debate: Says Gavin Newsom "didn’t solve the homeless problem at all" as mayor of San Francisco, "and it’s gotten worse." Yes on 10 campaign stated on September 28, 2018 in a TV advertisement: California’s rent control measure Proposition 10 would have "No effect on homeowners" Gavin Newsom stated on September 10, 2018 in a campaign speech: "Close to half of the children" in California are "at or near poverty," when you consider cost-of-living. John Cox stated on July 30, 2018 in a Fox Business Network interview: "Fully half the people — our research is showing half the people — in (California) want to leave." Bloggers stated on July 25, 2018 in a blog post: "SHOCK REPORT: Senator McCaskill BUSTED Funneling Millions of Tax Dollars to Her Hubby." Kamala Harris stated on July 19, 2018 in a tweet: "In 99 percent of counties in America, someone making the minimum wage working full time can’t afford a 1-bedroom apartment." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated on July 23, 2018 in a tweet: In New York City, "for every one person experiencing homelessness here, there are about three vacant apartments." Gavin Newsom stated on May 8, 2018 in a campaign debate: "In San Francisco, we were successful in reducing our street population 40 percent. We got 12,000 people off the street." Kevin Nicholson stated on April 19, 2018 in news release: Says conservative mega-donor Richard Uihlein is a Wisconsin resident. 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."
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.”
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.”
Democratic Party of Wisconsin stated on August 2, 2020 in a tweet: “34% of Wisconsin renters are at risk of eviction.”
Facebook posts stated on August 8, 2020 in a Facebook post: President Donald Trump “put a hold on ALL EVICTIONS through December.”
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.
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.”
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
Darrell Steinberg stated on October 24, 2019 in an interview with Capital Public Radio: "90,000 Californians are unsheltered and homeless."
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.
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."
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."
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.
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."
Elizabeth Warren stated on April 22, 2019 in 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."
Facebook posts stated on March 5, 2019 in 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."
Toni Preckwinkle stated on March 12, 2019 in 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.
West Virginia Republican Party stated on September 14, 2018 in 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!"
John Cox stated on October 8, 2018 in a campaign debate: Says Gavin Newsom "didn’t solve the homeless problem at all" as mayor of San Francisco, "and it’s gotten worse."
Yes on 10 campaign stated on September 28, 2018 in a TV advertisement: California’s rent control measure Proposition 10 would have "No effect on homeowners"
Gavin Newsom stated on September 10, 2018 in a campaign speech: "Close to half of the children" in California are "at or near poverty," when you consider cost-of-living.
John Cox stated on July 30, 2018 in a Fox Business Network interview: "Fully half the people — our research is showing half the people — in (California) want to leave."
Bloggers stated on July 25, 2018 in a blog post: "SHOCK REPORT: Senator McCaskill BUSTED Funneling Millions of Tax Dollars to Her Hubby."
Kamala Harris stated on July 19, 2018 in a tweet: "In 99 percent of counties in America, someone making the minimum wage working full time can’t afford a 1-bedroom apartment."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated on July 23, 2018 in a tweet: In New York City, "for every one person experiencing homelessness here, there are about three vacant apartments."
Gavin Newsom stated on May 8, 2018 in a campaign debate: "In San Francisco, we were successful in reducing our street population 40 percent. We got 12,000 people off the street."
Kevin Nicholson stated on April 19, 2018 in news release: Says conservative mega-donor Richard Uihlein is a Wisconsin resident.
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."
