Brick by Brick: Real Estate with Malcolm Davis

    Black History Month, Real Estate, and the Truth in Between By Malcolm Davis, HomeVets Realty Black History Month is often framed as a celebration—and it should be. But it’s also a reckoning. Especially in real estate, where the story of Black Americans is not just about success and resilience, but about exclusion, lost opportunity, and systems that were designed to keep ownership out of reach. Real estate has always been one of the most powerful tools for building generational wealth in America. That’s the good. The hard truth is that for much of our history, Black families were intentionally locked out of that opportunity. The Bad We Have to Acknowledge For decades, Black Americans were legally and systematically denied access to homeownership. Redlining, racially restrictive covenants, discriminatory lending, and appraisal bias weren’t accidents—they were policy. Entire neighborhoods were labeled “high risk” simply because Black families lived there. Veterans came home ...