---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 3609"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "3609"
heading: "Education and conciliation; conferences and consultations; reports"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/3609"
units:
  - "Chapter 45 — Fair Housing"
  - "Subchapter I — Generally"
---

# §3609. Education and conciliation; conferences and consultations; reports


Immediately after April 11, 1968, the [Secretary](/usc/42/3602.md?p=a) shall commence such educational and conciliatory activities as in his judgment will further the purposes of this subchapter. He shall call conferences of [persons](/usc/42/3602.md?p=d) in the [housing](/usc/42/1490p–2.md?p=r-3) industry and other interested parties to acquaint them with the provisions of this subchapter and his suggested means of implementing it, and shall endeavor with their advice to work out [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) of voluntary compliance and of enforcement. He may pay per diem, travel, and transportation expenses for [persons](/usc/42/3602.md?p=d) attending such conferences as provided in [section 5703 of title 5](/usc/5/5703.md). He shall consult with [State](/usc/42/3602.md?p=g) and local officials and other interested parties to learn the extent, if any, to which [housing](/usc/42/1490p–2.md?p=r-3) discrimination exists in their [State](/usc/42/3602.md?p=g) or locality, and whether and how [State](/usc/42/3602.md?p=g) or local enforcement [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) might be utilized to combat such discrimination in connection with or in place of, the [Secretary](/usc/42/3602.md?p=a)’s enforcement of this subchapter. The [Secretary](/usc/42/3602.md?p=a) shall issue reports on such conferences and consultations as he deems appropriate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–284, title VIII, § 809, Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 85.)