Toxic City Philly: Powelton Village

The West Philadelphia Neighborhood of Powelton Village has one of the highest Lead Risk Scores in the city of Philadelphia due to 88% of this historic neighborhood's homes being built before 1980: when the use of lead paint was banned in the U.S. Along with Juniata, Fairhill, Kensington, University City, and many others, Powelton has a Lead Risk Score above five, a nine, ten being the highest. After looking at the Lead Risk Score Map of Philadelphia, it's honestly very shocking to see how many neighborhoods, including mine, are at such a high risk of lead poisoning. I wonder what precautions and actions we can complete in order to greatly reduce this issue or preferably, completely eliminate it. Many households including mine have new non-lead paint over the old lead paint to conceal it, rather than getting rid of the issue.