Claim ignores key accomplishments
Says Gavin Newsom "didn’t solve the homeless problem at all" as mayor of San Francisco, "and it’s gotten worse."
— PolitiFact California on Monday, October 8th, 2018
Claim leaves out key information
California’s rent control measure Proposition 10 would have "No effect on homeowners"
— PolitiFact California on Friday, October 5th, 2018
Claim not supported by independent polls
"Fully half the people — our research is showing half the people — in (California) want to leave."
— PolitiFact California on Thursday, September 6th, 2018
Claim ignores uptick at end of Newsom's tenure
"In San Francisco, we were successful in reducing our street population 40 percent. We got 12,000 people off the street."
— PolitiFact California on Thursday, May 10th, 2018
Big hole in claim by candidate for governor
"Since I’ve been the state treasurer, we’ve increased the building, construction of affordable housing by 80 percent."
— PolitiFact California on Wednesday, September 13th, 2017
Many lost cash in Trump-named projects
Florida retirees and families "lost tens of thousands of dollars" in deposits on failed Trump condo projects, but he "pocketed their money and walked away."
— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, July 28th, 2016
Comments were made pre-crash
"Donald Trump said he was excited for the 2008 housing crash that devastated millions of American families, because he thought it would help him scoop up more real estate on the cheap."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, July 26th, 2016
He tried and failed
Says a Ted Cruz ad has "got me bull-dozing down a house. I never bulldozed it down. It's false advertising."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, January 24th, 2016
An imperfect count
"On a single night in January 2015, state and local planning agencies in Rhode Island reported the following estimates of homelessness … 107 veterans were homeless."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, December 13th, 2015
Deduction skews to the rich, but not so drastically
The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
Most studies show smaller drop in value
"Proximity to high-voltage power lines lowers property values by as much as 30 percent."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, November 16th, 2014
Crist spent money on the manse, too
Says Rick Scott "spent $800,000 of your tax dollars upgrading the Governor's Mansion."
— PolitiFact Florida on Friday, October 31st, 2014
But also cut taxes across the board
Says Scott Walker cut "taxes for the wealthiest" and raised taxes "on 140,000 Wisconsin families."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, September 25th, 2014
Percentage may have changed since data collected 18 years ago
"44% of homeless people are employed."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, December 4th, 2013
UPDATE: By any other measure
Newark is "now home to one-third of all commercial and multi-family development."
— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, September 15th, 2013
Many would-be buyers could lose access
A Republican housing finance reform bill "would eliminate a person’s ability to obtain 15- and 30-year mortgages."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Sunday, August 4th, 2013
He also said it would 'come back up'
Mitt Romney said we should let foreclosures "hit the bottom."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
Values push up homeowners’ bills
Says "Austin has the lowest property tax rate by far of the five major cities in Texas."
— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Housing claim needs remodeling
"There is not one single federal housing program yet that has not needed a bailout to survive."
— PolitiFact Georgia on Friday, March 30th, 2012
Maybe a condo -- but not on the lake.
Says "there are homes for sale on and around (Oswego Lake) right now for under $150,000 that anyone is welcome to buy."
— PolitiFact Oregon on Friday, February 17th, 2012