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

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.

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

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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