How is East Palo Alto doing? Serious question, when I was still in SFBA I think the houses there were 2 times cheaper than across the highway and the joke was t

How is East Palo Alto doing? Serious question, when I was still in SFBA I think the houses there were 2 times cheaper than across the highway and the joke was the weather forecast goes "Palo Alto sunny, East Palo Alto sunny, stray bullets". I was wondering if I should buy a rental house then (~2013)...