The leaders said they spent only a couple of minutes discussing the rent laws today, making no progress.

While the overwhelming majority of those interviewed wanted the rent law retained, a few people had a different view.

With the help of the rent laws, he is still there.

The survey questioned slightly more than 2,000 tenants who had moved since the new rent laws went into effect.

But there was no public movement toward a compromise on the rent laws.

In any case, he said, the rent laws specifically deal with the type of situation described by the letter writer.

He said administration of the city's rent laws has "been a disaster for decades."

But the real impact of the new rent law is deliberately incremental.

According to most participants, however, the real question is not whether the state's rent laws will be renewed, but in what form.

The rent laws will expire if no action is taken by June 15.