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MEET LYDIA POPE, PRESIDENT ELECT OF NAREB.
MEET LYDIA POPPE
WHO IS LYDIA POPE
Lydia M. Pope is currently a Licensed Real Estate Broker, Property Manager & General Contractor in the City of Cleveland, Ohio for over 22 years. She has a Bachelors’s in Communication/Public Relations with a master’s in Business Management. She has also been a Certified Housing Counselor for NID for over 15 years and is the Current 3rd Vice President for the National Association of Real Estate Brokers, Inc.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Lydia has been in the Real Estate Industry since 1995. She is the Owner/President of E & D Realty & Investment Co, Inc. (www.edrealty1. com), E&D Realty Property Management Division, and E&D Construction Company.
Lydia is currently Branch Manager for NID-HCA, a HUD Approved Housing Counseling Agency and Certified Property Manager from REMBI. Some of her past and current accomplishments are 1st Vice President of the National
“I may be the president-elect [of NAREB], but I tell you now, when I talk to my clients today and show them a house today, I still walk them through every single step of the homeowner
process,” Association of Real Estate Brokers, Inc. (NAREB), Past President of the Women’s Council of NAREB, Mt. Pleasant Advisory Board, Ohio Housing Finance Agency Committee, Cleveland Realtist Association Past President & Chair, Cleveland/Akron Legislative Committee, NAACP Member and more.
Pope’s Passion For real Estate In her mind, Pope never thought much about the real estate market or what real estate really entails. All that changed when together with her husband went to purchase their first home. The experience was not that pleasant and after feeling that the real estate agent had given them limited choices and steered them, she realized that she wanted to be in the real estate industry and become an agent to help others by according them the treatment she wished she had received. Apart from serving as the president of NAREB, Pope runs two major real estate companies.
“I may be the president-elect [of NAREB], but I tell you now, when I talk to my clients today and show them a house today, I still walk them through every single step of the homeowner process,” Pope explains. “They truly enjoy that. I treat them like I want to be treated.”
Plans For The Future Since 1947, the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) has worked so hard to ensure that African Americans achieve their dream of homeownership. NAREB was established before the National Association of Realtors (NAR), and the organization was the driving force behind some of the monumental movements towards the greater good of the community, like aiding in the creation of HUD in 1964 and had an active role in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as well as the Community reinvestment Act of 1977. When sharing her goals as the president of NAREB, Pope says that she plans on taking the information on the State of Housing In Black America report- the annual report that points out current challenges to Black homeownership- and using that information to make a positive impact on the community. In terms of advocacy, Pope says NAREB is still very much in the thick of it.
“We were really involved in activism, advocacy, and ensuring that Black folks would get an opportunity to be able to live in the communities, to work in the communities, and to buy a home as a Black person within our organization,” says Lydia Pope, the current NAREB president-elect.
