Drupal 7 Not Rendering HTML tags
Figured out a workaround. 

With having the views_php module https://www.drupal.org/project/views_php , I went into the view I was working on and clicked "add" in the fields section. 

I chose Global: PHP and the field that would be pulling my database (descr in this case). 

For the field that would be pulling from my database (descr), I chose to "Exclude from Display" and in the Global:PHP field, I choose the available variable (which was $row->descr).

There are probably better ways to do this but after spending close to a week, this works for me.