09/25/2022
COMEDIAN MIKE EPPS AND HIS WIFE, ARE JOINING FORCES TO CREATE A HOME IMPROVEMENT SHOW FOCUSED ON INVESTING IN REAL ESTATE IN YOUR HOMETOWN.
Epps' wife, TV producer Kyra Epps, announced in an Instagram post that their show, called "Buying Back the Block" would be coming in spring 2023. The location is tagged as Indianapolis — Epps' hometown.
"We’ve been fixing houses the last two summers," she wrote in a caption. "Now excited to say this time around it's going to be on wow wow wow!"
House flipping isn't a new venture for Epps. Mike has been vocal about his views on the importance of “buying back the block,” or purchasing property in one’s hometown and in communities of color, in general, to prevent gentrification. In 2020, he wrote an Instagram post announcing that he fixed up property in Indiana, where he grew up.
"A lot of people claim a Hood a city or a block but don’t own it," he wrote in the captions. "This is my block in Indiana the before and after with family and friends in the homes."
He continued, “they movin us out of our community’s at a rapid pace,” before noting that the neighborhood used to be rough when he was young, a place where he lost “many friends” to violence and drugs. But he was able to help improve it through buying and renovating homes.
“I tell all the youngsters to invest in real estate it will take care of you !!!!” he added.