On February 5th, the House of Representative’s Committee on Oversight and Reform, Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a hearing on “A Threat to America’s Children: The Trump Administration’s Proposal to Gut Fair Housing Accountability.”

Dr. Megan Sandel, Co-Lead Principal Investigator of Children’s HealthWatch, testified to discuss how current efforts by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to weaken the Fair Housing Act through proposed changes to the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule threaten the health and well-being of children and their families.

Watch the hearing below. Dr. Megan Sandel’s testimony begins at 0:37:16.