Professor of Sociology Leslie Martin’s comments were included in an article titled “Consideration of Jeremiah Community Continues at City Planning Commission Meeting,” which ran in the FXBG Advance. Martin addressed concerns about the effects of “concentrated poverty” in one area of the city. She said decades of study have shown that “what caused the issues that came from [low-income] neighborhoods is not the concentration of poverty but the withdrawal of institutional support.” The presence of a Jeremiah Community in Bragg Hill could “bring more institutions and resources to the community,” she said. Read more.