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All units covered by the Rent Adjustment Program are also covered under the Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance. However, if your unit is not covered under RAP, it may still be covered under this ordinance.
The graphics were relatively improved compared to Just Cause 2, just as more clearer water and sunlight, but the scenery was relatively the same compared to Just Cause 2. Destructible bridges and trains are a "fun" note, but there were significant bugs and glitches that were a big criticism.
In the rush before GDC we had just enough time to take a quick look at the Xbox 360 and PS3 demos, but a longer, deeper look at the full retail versions of both games reveals a range of differences between the two versions, which we'll examine in greater depth in this piece. Lest we forget, there's also a PC version too, with Avalanche keen to show that they're taking the platform seriously with an implementation of the new Just Cause engine that scales impressively to accommodate base-level gaming rigs all the way up to i7-powered multi-GPU monstrosities.
Performance then, and time to update some of the observations from our quick look at the demo. Not much has changed about our thoughts on the Xbox 360 version of the game. It still looks very much like it's a standard double-buffered set-up, capped at 30FPS throughout, with tearing being introduced when frame-rate dips. In the demo piece we said that the frame-rate on the PlayStation 3 version of Just Cause 2 is unlocked. Now we're not quite so sure as the performance is almost always very close to 30FPS, just with the odd "bonus" frame or two increasing the average - almost as if some kind of custom frame-buffering system were in use.
The island of San Esperito is huge, and though there are a few urbanized areas, including a small high-rise district, several military installations, seaports, and airports, most of San Esperito is blanketed in undeveloped rainforest that is peppered with crude settlements. Its size is a little deceptive, since there's not much to be done in the huge tracts of forest, but it all feels organic, and the scope of the island is still impressive. You're given a good feel for the size of the island, as well as some of Rico's more unconventional skills, right off the bat, as you start off the game by jumping out of a plane at several thousand feet. You can control Rico's speed and direction a bit while in freefall, and you can instantly deploy a parachute at the tap of a button, which slows you down enough to make a safe landing and frees up your hands to hold any one of the weapons you might have on you. The parachute system is just one of many absurd contrivances in Just Cause. There's no limit to how often you can deploy your parachute, it doesn't seem to take up any space on your person, and it never gets snagged on obstacles like trees, buildings, or streetlamps.
In Grand Theft Auto fashion, Just Cause lets you commandeer just about any vehicle you see, including boats, planes, and helicopters, provided you can get close enough to it. Once you're behind the wheel, most vehicles have a "stunt position," which forces you to relinquish control but lets you jump onto other nearby vehicles and take control of them or deploy your parachute, which will jerk you back up into the air. After a few missions, you're given a grappling gun, which you can use to hook onto vehicles from a few hundred meters away. Grappling onto a moving vehicle will cause your parachute to automatically deploy, making it possible to parasail around the island. Perhaps most impressively, you can use the grappling hook to skyjack helicopters and planes while they're in the air.
Using these mechanics well can take some getting used to, as a lot of the action buttons are contextual, and the only way to tell if you're able to pull off certain moves is when the onscreen text descriptions of the action buttons change. So the button used for jumping to another vehicle from the stunt position is the same for simply jumping out of your vehicle depending on the situation, and if you're not paying extra-close attention to the onscreen text descriptions, you'll end up on foot rather than on the desired vehicle. There's also a certain amount of contempt for the laws of physics in Just Cause. Perhaps the most absurd example is the ability to hop back and forth from the cockpit of a moving helicopter to the stunt position on the helicopter's tail, passing right through the spinning blades every time. You'll also find that you can deploy your parachute just feet from the ground without any harm, and you can go directly from a terminal-velocity freefall into a stunt position on a vehicle, even going in a direction completely contrary to your momentum as long as the vehicle is close enough.
The game doesn't even bother trying to justify any of this craziness, and it will no doubt annoy those expecting even a modicum of realism, but once you figure out how to effectively use these abilities to seamlessly grapple onto a car, take control of it, get into stunt position as you drive it off a cliff, deploy your parachute as you watch the car explode in the ravine below you, grapple onto an attacking helicopter and take it over, then freefall directly into the warm Caribbean waters surrounding San Esperito, it makes the action uniquely visceral and extremely satisfying.
The use of achievements is just one of the reasons that the Xbox 360 version of Just Cause is the best version. Though the game's use of motion blur and light bloom can be a little overwhelming at times, the 360 version has the most stable frame rate, the clearest textures, and the cleanest overall look. The PC and Xbox versions are close in terms of fidelity, though we couldn't get the PC version to run in a wide-screen aspect ratio, and the Xbox version ran at a noticeably lower resolution with a more erratic frame rate. Additionally, we found no apparent way to opt for gamepad controls in the PC version. While the Xbox, PC, and Xbox 360 versions are comparable, the PlayStation 2 version feels compromised. The draw distance is much closer, there's a distracting amount of pop-in, textures look comparatively flat and grainy, and the frame rate regularly chugs. Though there's not much perceptible difference in terms of the actual content of the different versions of Just Cause, the PS2 version's technical shortcomings make it much harder to recommend.
Just Cause will evoke strong love-it-or-hate-it reactions from people for a lot of reasons. The game's amoral stance on the complicated issues surrounding US-sponsored regime changes in third-world countries will rub some people the wrong way, while others will be annoyed by its fast-and-loose approach to basic physics. Even though it doesn't get some of the particulars right, Just Cause can still be engaging simply because of the risks it's willing to take.
"Just cause eviction" is the buzzword given to a form of rent control. There are various flavors around the country, but the general idea is that it should be difficult or impossible to evict tenants who refuse to pay a rent increase.
Written agreements always contemplate at the outset the ways in which they may end. This is perhaps the single most important feature of a rental agreement. A tenant may lose their job or buy a home. A landlord may sell their property or need to renovate it. The landlord or tenant may fail to meet their obligations. Whatever the cause, all good things must come to an end.
Advocates for just cause eviction are worried principally about low income households being able to remain where they are. They do not approve of gentrification, particularly when it is driven by large developers.
Tenant advocates are particularly sensitive to landlords who appear to be greedy, and to tenants who appear to be needy. Just cause eviction is less frequently discussed in the context of college students living under mom-and-pop landlords. It comes up more frequently in the context of senior citizens or low-income households living under big money developers.
Advocates for tenant rights repudiate the notion that "just cause evictions" are a form of rent control. But in stating their motivations for a just cause eviction ordinance or law, they will always talk about affordability and rent levels. Take, for instance, wording from a recent Boston ordinance proposal:
Just cause eviction ordinances control rents by allowing normal eviction for most everything but refusing a rent increase. Tenants can be evicted for crime, violations of house rules, denying access to the premises, disrupting others' quiet enjoyment, damaging the premises, and failing to pay rent, among other things. "Refusing to pay a rent increase" is the principal exclusion from the list of just causes.
Advocates point to high rent levels as the motivation. And they exclude rent increases as the only "unjust" cause of eviction. A reasonable speaker of English can only conclude that just cause eviction is, in fact, designed to control rent. "Just cause" is a form of rent control.
Note that Just Cause Eviction also forbids termination of tenancy because the building needs to be renovated. Just like in the rent control years, where maintenance was deferred, Just Cause Eviction has the effect of deferring maintenance on housing.
Just cause eviction ordinances take this mediation out of its court setting, place it in the hands of one-sided tenant advocacy groups, burden the landlord with additional delays and paperwork requirements, and fail to establish time limits. It is in every way worse than court mediation.
It would be egregiously bad public policy to enact a process that has been designed to be slow and difficult. It is a laughable suggestion, made only because the legislature would never lengthen the already long Massachusetts eviction process. It would be far better to increase financial support for homelessness prevention, direct this to tenants early in the eviction process, and forget "just cause evictions" entirely.
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