"Santiago Villa mobile home park residents voiced growing concerns that the park's owners had jacked up the space rental cost to record levels"

Why do people so often describe these situations as if the park owners created them??

It isn't owners who raise the market value of things like this offered for rent. That's beyond their ability (much as they might wish to do it). It is the demand from all the other people wanting to rent them that raises the market value. This is very basic. Absent such demand, owners could ask high prices, but they'd find no takers.

will the city council do as they did with the renters begging for help for well over a year which forced the citizens to put measure V on the ballot - will they dither or will they take action -
depends on who is elected to city council- certainly Mr ramirez and Mr carpenter will be sympathetic to the mobile home park renters issues - but 3 running for reelection - Ms abekoga, Mr clark and Mr mcalister are philosophically opposed to rent control -- the latter 2 abandoned their principles to endorse rent control in measure w hoping to derail the measure v effort - and abekoga misrepresented measure V at the recent candidates debate saying it will force the city to choose between police and fire and paying the start up costs of a rent board

mr clark is worried about future unintended consequences -- the unintended consequences are already here with thousands forced to flee the city due to rising rents

and remember that Measure V does not apply to any new construction or any complex built after feb 1995!!!!!!! so new construction will continue

Mountain View's mobile home parks have long been home to senior citizens and working class residents.
Unlike apartments, the residents buy and own the home that is placed on the land they rent. Once a home is placed on the land, it cannot easily be moved, and in some cases, can't be moved. Residents pays all utilities, taxes, insurance, and maintenance of their space. The rent is just space rent. The park maintains the hookups leaving the space and the roads to the space.

When space rent increases, the value of the home decreases, making it increasingly harder for the resident to sell. Their only options are the pay the increase or sell their home at a depreciated rate, often to the park itself.

Unlike apartments, where rent may go into maintenance or upgrades, mobile home prices go up with no added benefit to the renter. Mobile homes are the city's most vulnerable housing stock. Ironic to see elderly and working class current residents be displaced from their mobile homes, all the while, reading of the city's plans to build millions of dollars of future subsidized housing for future residents. In Santiago Villa, the irony is even more striking, given those residents live in the middle of Google traffic and pollution from the new construction, developments that generate public benefits to the city, but those benefits don't seem to help the residents who suffer directly from the development.

You want to blame someone? Don't blame the owners - you get what the market will bear.

Instead, blame Google - they're buying up all of MV and all those freshly minted employees coming from around the world need a place to live, jacking up rents and values.

Mobile park dwellers' kids make the schools' scores go down, creating a situation where one pays millions for a house but is stuck with mediocre or worse public schools.
I am sympathetic to the elderly residents who see a lot of sentimental value on living in MV, but honestly, they don't have to be here as they don't need to go to work. Or their work is not tied to the city.
I honestly wish the free lunch families would move and stop making the schools bad.

My 2 kids live in Santiago Villa and get all As. My kid goes to Los Altos High School and has a 4.0 gpa. So what you say ia a straight up lie. Same
with the stereotypes about crime. Look at crimereports.org for Mountain View. Hardly none or no crime in the park. Crime everywhere else in Mountain View. I am tired of these lies and stereotypes.

Also I have a Bachelors and Masters in Engineering and Mom has a Bachelors. We probably have more education than your family. These lies and
stereotypes are wrong.

Do the math on how much you pay and how much I pay to live in Mountain View. If you knew the numbers you would see that I'm way smarter than you.

There shouldn't even be mobile home parks in Silicon Valley. This is earthquake country. Because of extensive rent controls on mobile home parks market prices have been distorted making this the number one study in economics. Go to Yahoo and MSN: The catastrophe in Capitola and the great Santa Cruz Land Swindle. Price fixing land rents (rent control) is costing California billions of dollars a year in damages and putting many lives at risk. Can politicians be honest about this? How can they be when many renters feel "affordable housing" is an entitlement. George Drysdale an economics teacher

My rent can go up to 10% every year. How is that rent control? Mobile
homes can be retrofitted for earthquakes and you can buy earthquake
insurance. Mobile home parks are legal and have been in Silicon Valley
longer than I've been alive.

Affordable housing and entitlements are code words for welfare queen and criminal. Trump speak.