SPECIAL REPORT – Living in Silicon Valley: Profiles of communities in transition

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A new community garden. Facebook’s second campus. The drop in violent crime points to a public safety shift that’s characterizing a vast transformation of Menlo Park’s historically most-dangerous neighborhood: Belle Haven.

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Even with its enormous wealth per capita, Santa Clara County had the largest percentage of unsheltered homeless in the country this year.

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San Mateo County is hoping to make a stretch of Middlefield Road in North Fair Oaks a vibrant destination — not just a way station between Atherton and Redwood City.

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