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Two restaurants are just a few in the community looking for more workers as more people move to the community.

The building which is now vacant from the consolidation of several elementary schools in the area has the county working on ways to fill the vacant building.

Be A Gem Crossing is an affordable housing project planned in the East Tioga neighborhood of North Philadelphia. The project, led by non-profit North 10 Philadelphia, will replace the nuisance Liberty Motel at the corner of Germantown Avenue and Westmoreland Street. The project, expected to be finished in 2023, will include 41 apartments for low-income residents and a ground-floor health clinic.

Greta Callahan rallied union members through a strike, but some in the community question whether the fight hurts efforts to secure more funding for schools.

An advocacy group found widespread lead contamination in the water lines of several schools across Philadelphia, potentially exposing thousands of students to the toxins that cause learning disabilities, damage to the nervous system, and internal organs.