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In this issue: Save this issue and review it before you come to City Hall on December 8 to speak against the proposed MRO changes! Inside is brand-new research of local realtor data showing higher space rent leads to lower home prices, how Vacancy Decontrol will not reduce the number of fair return hearings, whether those hearing are scary, what if we already had Vacancy Decontrol, and a comparison of conventional versus mobile homes. Much of this data is being published here for the very first time!

Contents: 2 Membership Application 3 Data Centers 4-5 Plaza del Rey 6 Fatal Flaw with Vacancy Decontrol 7 Fair Return Hearings 8 Vacancy Decontrol: What If? 9 Cats of SVVMHP 10-11 Conventional vs. Mobile Homes 11 Maintenance Reminders 12 Crossword

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Book Review: Gracias / Thanks Sudoku SORS English Voting Rights Quiz License Plates SORS Spanish Solutions SORS Vietnamese Vince Flores

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WRO Membership Application I live in Silicon Valley Village Mobile Home Park (formerly Westwinds) and want it to remain an affordable mobile home park. I want to join WRO to support their objective of creating a resident-owned community as the best way to accomplish that goal. Name: _______________________________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________________________________ _____ adults (age 18 or over) and _____ children (younger than 18) live at my address. Telephone: _________________________ Email: ____________________________________ I understand this information is only for use by WRO and will not be shared with anyone else without my permission. Signature: ____________________________________________________________________

WRO is an organization of residents focused on our long-term goal to preserve our mobile home park as affordable housing. We believe the best long-term solution is for residents to form a co-op to purchase the land, taking it out of the speculative real estate market. WRO also represents our community to government. In 2020, we gained additional protection against redevelopment for all mobile home parks in San José. More recently, WRO obtained an additional 60 days for all residents to fix issues from a recent HCD inspection. WRO also helps residents communicate. Over 600 residents subscribe to our Facebook page. If you believe in preserving our community, please join WRO! Email a photo of your signed form to: westwindsresidents@gmail.com

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Data Centers, Then and Now By Shakira, Steele Data centers are dominating our headlines, especially here in Silicon Valley, and the Silicon Valley Villagers want to know the details. In the beginning, there was the Internet and the Earth; however, the Net wasn’t in the Heavens. Its humble origins were in the multitude of computer servers across the country. As the internet grew, every online business had to have its own servers, but because of low bandwidth, early internet days were in darkness. Well, not that dark, but maybe a little shaded. By 2006, developers had dedicated server buildings for data storage and dissemination. Thus, the light of industry could focus on business and not expensive server maintenance. They dubbed it ‘The Cloud’ and saw that it was good. The Net may not have risen to the Heavens, but it did make it to The Cloud. For decades, the web was fruitful and multiplied. Soon, everyone was using the Cloud for email, search engines and social media, etc. A greater need for data storage on the web came with the advent of AI – Artificial Intelligence – because AI wouldn’t just read data; it would learn from it. In the 2020s, AI grew and flourished, starting with ChatGPT, and the developers saw that it was good; it just needed more data centers - many, many more data centers. Some saw this as a positive, others not so much. The Pros and Cons Pro: More data centers would implement a digital rainbow ascending from the Cloud to connect to the firmament and lead to more growth in tech. Obviously, everything in the Bay Area is tied to the tech industry, which is why so many centers are scheduled to be created right here in Silicon Valley, according to their kind. With more industry comes jobs, keeping Silicon Valley highly relevant to California’s innovation economy. Today the Valley; tomorrow the world’s largest economy! Con: Once we get our heads out of the Cloud and our feet back on the Earth, practical and environmental concerns come into view. Data centers use enormous amounts of power that our grid might not be prepared for. Two local data centers and others in the state sit idle since they don’t have enough electricity to run on yet. There’s speculation that data centers could increase utility costs for everyone. Also, the servers in the centers need to be kept cool with water that will become overheated, which could hurt the environment or raise local temperatures. Some residents say that data centers cause noise to nearby neighborhoods, with humming 24/7. In South San Jose, there are already complaints about that. At the State level, on Sept 21, Governor Newsom signed tighter regulation, rather than just letting AI and data centers have dominion over the data. This includes water recycling, financial responsibility and increased transparency. Federal legislation has been proposed that sets standards for this new industry. This next great technological advance will take a watchful eye to ensure it will be good.

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Eye-Opening Actual Realtor Data on Mobile Home Values By Patrick Grimes and Realtor Ray One of our arguments against Vacancy Decontrol (post-sale rent increase) is that, when you sell your home, increasing the space rent on your buyer steals your equity (what your home is worth). The 1987 Fremont study established the widely-cited industry rule of thumb that every $100 change in monthly space rent results in a $10,000 shift in mobile home equity. When a speaker from Housing asserted that the Fremont study had been "debunked," I asked them for proof. They sent me a 1999 study which actually concluded that the Fremont study was 98% correct on average. [See October Westerly Winds, p.6] Housing will not be happy with this latest research, done this year by a local realtor who wishes to remain anonymous. They pulled data from the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), which is only available to licensed realtors. Plaza Del Rey in Sunnyvale, because of its history, clearly confirms the Fremont study's conclusion. [See September Westerly Winds, pp.5-6]

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Plaza Del Rey Based on the MLS history, Plaza Del Rey home values were on a strong upward trajectory leading into 2015. From 2012 to 2015, the median sale price almost doubled, while median price per square foot more than doubled. During the same period, median space rent remained relatively moderate, increasing approximately 25%. Page 4

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Following the 2015 ownership change, rents gradually continued upward to a median space rent of $1,250 in 2017. In 2018 there was another ownership change followed by particularly large increases in space rent to approximately $2,200 in 2019. There was a pronounced drop in home values in 2019 as rents continued to climb. By 2021, the median sale price had fallen dramatically by almost half from the 2018 peak. Marketability also weakened during this period. The average home that sold in about a month in 2015 took almost five months to sell in 2021. After the City of Sunnyvale and Park owners signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in October of 2021, median rents decreased in 2022 and home values increased. When median rents jumped again in 2025, the median sale price again declined. MLS data supports a reasonable conclusion that substantially higher space rents drove down both resale value and buyer demand at Plaza Del Rey.

Sunnyvale versus San Jose From 2012 through 2018, Sunnyvale mobile homes generally sold at a clear premium to San José. By 2018, the median sale price was about $275,000 in Sunnyvale versus $210,000 in San José, a 30% gap. Beginning around 2019–2021, that price advantage narrowed and then largely disappeared. Median sale prices now are about $340,500 in Sunnyvale versus $343,000 in San José, virtually identical. How did San José home values (solid orange line) catch up to Sunnyvale (solid blue line)? Look at space rents. Sunnyvale space rents (dashed blue line) were 12.5% higher than San José space rents (dashed orange line) in 2012. By 2026, they were over 33% higher, a difference of about $429 per month. MLS data shows that Sunnyvale’s historical resale-price premium over San José has largely disappeared because of San José's far slower rise in space rents.

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The Fatal Flaw with Vacancy Decontrol By Patrick Grimes and Realtor Ray San José's Housing Department says they want mobile home parks to stay in business. They tell us that Vacancy Decontrol (post-sale rent increase) will reduce the number of Fair Return Hearings and keep parks solvent. That's not true. Vacancy Decontrol raises space rents by a percentage after a sale. The parks who benefit are parks with high rents and lots of sales. The parks in greatest need are those with low rents. A 10% bump doesn't help them as much. Further, residents paying $600 a month can't afford to move, so those parks have fewer sales. The bottom line is that Vacancy Decontrol will not help the neediest parks, who might request Fair Return Hearings anyway. The flowchart below, developed by a realtor, makes this clear.

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Fair Return Hearings: Are They Scary? By Patrick Grimes and Doug Lohafer Fair Return Hearings are when a park operator thinks they aren't making enough money, and they ask permission to raise space rents more than the usual 3%. WRO board member Doug Lohafer reviewed all 11 Fair Return decisions on the Housing Department website (downloaded 6/5 and 7/15). He found some parks requested more money multiple times, so only 10% of parks (six out of 58) generated all the requests. Over a third (four out of 11) got denied, dismissed, or withdrawn. The remaining seven were approved for an average rent increase of about $70, less than half of what the park operator wanted. Here is data for all decisions since 1994: • Casa Alondra MHP 1994 (Hearing 61594) Requested $54.50 for 182 spaces GRANTED $27.47 • Casa Alondra MHP 1997 (Decision 8597) Requested increase not found in 29 pages. GRANTED $43.23 for 181 spaces for 3 years • Casa Alondra 2025 Requested $335.02 for 181 spaces GRANTED $144.09. (Operator does not own the land; ground lease payments went up.) • Colonial Mobile Manor 2012 Requested $114.22 for 207 spaces GRANTED $46.30 • Colonial Mobile Manor 2013 Requested $85.01 for 207 spaces DENIED. (Most of this request was attorney fees for the owner's 2012 petition.) • Colonial Mobile Manor 2018 (Writ of M.) Requested increase not found in four pages. GRANTED $45.06 for 207 spaces

• Golden Wheel Mobilehome Park 2025 Requested $60.03 for 210 spaces DENIED. (Read article in our August issue.) • Oakcrest Mobilehome Park 2011 Requested increase not found in 29 pages. GRANTED $113.97 for 140 spaces • Oakcrest Mobilehome Park 2015 Requested increase not found in 50 pages. GRANTED $80.35 for 157 spaces. • San José Verde Mobilehome Park 2015 Requested $148.38 for 65 spaces DISMISSED. (Park owner was trying to get financial records from other parks.) • Summerset Mobilehome Park 2014 Requested $185.33 for 111 spaces. DISMISSED. (Park owner and residents agreed on a settlement.)

San José's Housing Department wants to scare you into giving up your MRO protections. They want you to think that you are likely to experience a fair return hearing, when 90% of parks never ask for more than the usual 3% increase. They want you to think that you will get a 10% to 15% rent increase, when the average increase is $70, which is 4.5% of a typical $1,500 space rent. They want you to support Vacancy Decontrol, which would throw random amounts of money (10% of someone's space rent) at random times (whenever someone sells their home), at all 58 park operators, whether they are scraping by or making money hand over fist. Our park, like most, never filed a Fair Return in 40 years, but there is no guarantee that they wouldn't file one in the future and win a rent increase. If that happened, none of us would like it, but let's not let a vague threat scare us into giving up our very real MRO protections. Westerly Winds

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What If We Already Had Vacancy Decontrol? By Patrick Grimes and Realtor Ray San Jose's Housing Department says they are pushing Vacancy Decontrol – what they now call "post-sale rent increase" – because it will decrease the number of fair return hearings. But will it? I've said "Not necessarily," but that was just my educated guess. Now there is real data to back me up. The same local realtor who demonstrated from actual Multiple Listing Service (MLS) data that increasing space rent lowers home values, did a 5-year historical “What If” Analysis. This historical model looks at San José mobile home sales over the past five years (2022 through 2026 YTD) and estimates what would have occurred if a 10% post-sale rent increase had been in place during that period. The model shows that the amount of additional revenue generated varies significantly from park to park and is driven primarily by the park’s existing rent level, number of spaces, and frequency of home sales. The results show that smaller, lower-rent parks with relatively few sales generate comparatively little additional revenue from vacancy decontrol, even where those parks may have substantial deferred maintenance or aging infrastructure. By contrast, larger parks with higher existing rents and more frequent sales can generate substantially more revenue under the same 10% formula. The 10% increase therefore distributes additional revenue according to turnover and existing rent levels, rather than according to a park’s demonstrated financial or infrastructure need. This is the central issue illustrated by the five-year model. The model shows that parks with low rents and limited turnover would receive relatively little additional revenue and could still need to pursue a Fair Return if their operating income is insufficient. Let's look at the six parks who have filed Fair Return Petitions in the past. Five of them would have benefited from Vacancy Decontrol by $70K to $100K over five years. Summerset would have received a measly $932, because only one home sold in those five years. Which Park topped the list? It's our park, which would have raked in almost half a million dollars.

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In Summary The five-year historical model shows that a 10% post-sale rent increase would not necessarily direct the greatest additional revenue to the parks with the lowest rents or greatest apparent financial need. Instead, the largest benefits tend to occur in parks with more spaces, higher rents, and more frequent sales. Page 8

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Conventional Homes versus Mobile Homes By Patrick Grimes and Homeowner Hank Mobile home living is, in one sense, the worst of both worlds. You own the home that sits on the land and are responsible for all the maintenance, but you rent the land rather than own it, with rent payments that increase every year. Yet, mobile homes are affordable housing in this valley. It didn't make sense until a fellow mobile home owner shared this research.

This example compares a $1.4 million conventional house and land with 20% down and a 30-year mortgage at 7.28%, to a $450,000 mobile home with 20% down and a 30-year loan at 8.5%, while paying space rent beginning at $1,400 a month and increasing exactly 3% annually. Because conventional homes are so much more expensive, monthly mobile home costs are cheaper, even with paying space rent. After 30 years, when mortgages on both homes are paid off, the conventional buyer has shelled out about 50% more than the mobile home buyer. However, space rent doesn't end when mortgage payments do. The chart above shows that both buyers pay almost the same amount over 50 years. Beyond that, it only gets worse for the mobile home buyer because space rents continue forever.

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Now consider what happens when both owners sell 50 years after their purchase. Assuming the conventional home appreciates at 3% a year, it will sell for twice what the buyer paid in both principal and interest. The mobile home, on the other hand, will have depreciated to about half its listed value. Mobile homeowners will never get rich. We are not greedy to oppose Vacancy Decontrol. In the long run, we get the short end of the stick. November Maintenance Reminders Keep your home running smoothly – each month we’ll share quick maintenance reminders to help protect your investment. In November, don’t forget to: • Clean carpets • Clean dryer vent • Check fire extinguishers Small steps today prevent big repairs tomorrow. From your friends at Factory Built Owners of America Westerly Winds

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Gracias / Thanks Si te rompes el hombro (un ejemplo al azar), ¿aún es posible estar agradecido? ¡Sí, claro! A través de una serie de frases poéticas que brotan directamente del corazón de un niño, fluye esta alegre celebración bilingüe de la familia, la amistad y la diversión. Desde el sol que lo despierta por la mañana hasta el chirrido de un grillo que lo arrulla para dormir por la noche, un niño da las gracias por las cosas y personas que enriquecen su vida: las mariquitas que vuelan, las olas del mar que rompen, el jarabe de chocolate espeso de papá y mucho más. La autora del libro, Pat Mora, escribe: «Querido lector, ¿por qué das la gracias tú? ¿Por tu almohada, por tu plato de macarrones con queso, por un lugar especial, por una persona especial? Estoy agradecida por las colinas y montañas del desierto, por mi familia y mis amigos, y por lectores como tú. Doy gracias por mi hogar, lleno de libros, y por mi cocina, donde preparo sopas, pan de limón y galletas con chispas de chocolate. Hacer una lista de las cosas por las que me siento agradecida siempre me pone alegre. « Espero que tu familia y tus amigos disfruten hablar sobre los placeres de la vida, tanto los grandes como los pequeños.» Con un mensaje adorable en texto sencillo y encantadoras ilustraciones, este libro es un tesoro. Comparte la alegría. Piensa en todas las cosas por las que puedes decir: «¡Gracias!».

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by Patrick Grimes If you break your shoulder (a random example), is it still possible to be thankful? Yes, of course! In a series of poetic sentences straight from the heart of a child flows this lighthearted bilingual celebration of family, friendship, and fun. From the sun waking him up in the morning to a cricket chirping him to sleep at night, a boy gives thanks for the many things and people who enrich his life: flying ladybugs, splashing ocean waves, Dad's thick chocolate syrup, and much more. The book's author, Pat Mora, writes, "Dear Reader, what are you thankful for? Your pillow? A dish of macaroni and cheese? A special place? A special person? I'm grateful for the hills and mountains of the high desert, my family and friends, and readers like you. I'm grateful for my home with plenty of books, and for my kitchen where I make soups, lemon bread, and chocolate chip cookies. Listing what I'm thankful for always makes me happy. "I hope your family and friends enjoy chatting about both large and small pleasures in life." An adorable message in simple text with charming illustrations, this book is a treasure. Come share the joy. Think about all the things for which you can say, "Thanks!"

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Directions: Enter the numbers 1 through 9 so that each digit appears exactly once in each row, in each column, and in each 3x3 box. Rating: very easy (missing 48 of 81 cells) Note: Red and blue cells contain important dates related to voting.

History of Sudoku Sudoku evolved from 18th-century mathematical concepts into a modern logic puzzle popularized globally through newspapers and the internet. Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler developed Latin Squares in 1783, a grid where each symbol or number appears only once in each row or column. This serves as the mathematical foundation for Sudoku, though it lacked the 3×3 subgrid restriction. French Newspapers in the late 19th Century published number placement puzzles, which faded out by World War I. [To be continued] Page 14

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Voting Rights Quiz The U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1789, left the question of who had the right to vote up to the states. Over time, our country has extended suffrage (the right to vote) to more and more citizens. In this decade, though, claims of rampant election fraud have triggered many restrictive voting laws, including: reducing the number of voting locations; reducing early voting options; and limiting voting hours. Yet, even the Heritage Foundation identified only 10 cases of in-person voter impersonation at the polls in billions of votes cast. You are more likely to be struck by lightning than for someone to commit voter fraud in one of our elections. Two hundred years after the Constitution was ratified, the United States continues to struggle with issues of voter access and equity. How much do you know about the history of voting rights? Take this quiz to find out! 1. When the country began, who could vote? 2. Who gained the right to vote from 1820 to the mid-1850s (the Jacksonian Democracy Era)? 3. Who gained the right to vote with the 15th Amendment? 4. What tactics did southern states use after 1877 to suppress Black voting? 5. Which state was the first to grant women the right to vote? 6. How did "Grandfather clauses" determine who could vote? 7. Who gained the right to vote with the 19th Amendment? 8. What were White Primaries? 9. Who gained the right to vote with the 23rd Amendment? 10. What is a poll tax, and how does it influence who can vote? 11. How did the Voting Rights Act in 1965 influence voting? 12. Who gained the right to vote with the 26th Amendment?

License Plates By Patrick Grimes Have you seen any new license plates? You might not have noticed the newest ones since they are so similar to the old format. California has used one number, three letters, and three numbers (1ABC123) since 1980. California DMV has now issued the final 9ZZZ999 license plate. The new format is a mirror image: three digits, three letters, and one final number, starting with 000AAA0. The License Plate Game Looking for a game to play with your children in the car? In the license plate game, you try to find words with the three letters found on most auto license plates. For example, with the letters WRO, you can make the words FLOWERPOT, LOWERMOST, or POWERBOAT. The word with the fewest letters wins! Can you find a shorter word than NEWSROOM? Variations: - Adults must use the letters in order, but children can use the letters in any order. - Adults must use words that do not begin with the first letter on the license plate. With the letters WRO, a child could use the word WORKOUT, but not an adult. Page 16

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Save Our Rent Stabilization (Spanish)

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Solutions Crossword Puzzle (page 12)

Sudoku (page 14)

Red and blue dates: The U.S. Constitution was written in 1787 and ratified (took effect) in 1789. Election Day this month is 11/3/26.

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Voting Rights Quiz (page 16) 1. Most states limited voting to white men who owned property, just six percent of the population. 2. Between 1820 and 1856, states gave all white men at least 21 years old the right to vote, regardless of wealth or property holdings. 3. The 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote. 4. Southern states enacted laws such as poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and whites-only primaries. 5. Women could vote in Wyoming from its inception in 1890. 6. "Grandfather clauses" said men could vote if their grandfathers had (before the Civil War), so poor southern white men could vote. 7. The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote in time for the 1920 election. 8. In many southern states, Blacks could vote in general elections, but not in Democratic primaries, so they had no say in which candidates appeared on the ballot in the general election. In 1944, the Supreme Court ruled this unconstitutional. 9. In 1960, residents of Washington, D.C. gained the right to vote in presidential elections, with three Electoral College votes. 10. A poll tax is a payment required to cast a ballot, which discourages poor people from voting. In 1964, the 24th Amendment ended the poll tax in federal elections, and that was extended to state and local elections in a 1966 court case. 11. In 1965, the Voting Rights Act banned discriminatory practices and made states with a history of voter suppression get "preclearance" for election law changes. 12. In 1971, the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18 years old.

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Vince Flores While you may not have known him, Vince Flores was your champion. Vince served as the first Vice President of WRO. He hosted many weekly board meetings around his dining room table in Hermitage. His thoughtful insights and concern for all residents guided us in our early days. Vince died suddenly and unexpectedly on September 8, 2020. His post below refers to our situation in 2020, but his point is just as timely now as it was when he wrote it. By Vincent Flores, January 27, 2020 Fellow Westwinds Residents, Since we first received the letter from MHC about eviction in August 2022, a lot of conversations and actions have been taking place. There have been press conferences and meetings where hundreds of us came out. We have been hearing a lot of people make statements and claims about protecting Westwinds, but only our collective action and participation will ensure our voices are heard and our homes protected. Much of the attention our community is getting is because this is an election year. Politicians have come out to make statements and promises. We must be careful with what we hear. Mayor Liccardo and Councilmember Lan Diep have come out to tell us that they want to rezone the land underneath Westwinds to be for mobile home use only. What they did not tell us was that they voted against this idea when it was proposed in 2018. While this current plan is good for us and will help, we should not and cannot assume that Mayor Liccardo and Councilmember Lan Diep will see this plan through if we do not hold them accountable. Everyone agrees that rezoning is a good idea, but rather than trust other people to do the work for us, we have to get ourselves organized. This is especially true for those politicians who have a record of voting against the ideas that they propose now. Recently an ally shared, "When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers." This is an election year, and it is important that all of us be engaged and vote for the people who we believe will stand with us. However, we still have to fight for this park after the election is over. The people we should truly rely on to protect this park, and parks across San Jose, are the park residents. Working together is not easy, but working together will give us more security than promises will. Our voices are strongest together! Page 20

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