HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Hutchinson City Council will address the city’s Rental Inspection Program during Tuesday’s agenda session.

The action by the council comes nearly two weeks after the City Housing Commission, who originally gave all indication it wanted to do away with the program, voted to recommend keeping the program.

There has been mixed support for the program, which was met with much criticism from landlords. The program lost much of its ability to keep track of rental property and its condition when the state passed a statute that limited the city’s ability to enforce the program.

Some feel that the program has done little to improve the housing situation in the city. That is compounded by the large number of houses that are considered rentals. At last check, more than one-third of the houses in the city were considered rental property.