Housing and Affordability
You should not be priced out of the community you built.
Rents are rising. Long-time residents are being displaced. Georgia has no meaningful anti-displacement law. Courtney will fight to change that.
The Challenge
What District 68 families are actually facing
District 68 sits in one of the most intense real estate pressure zones in the Southeast. South Fulton has grown by more than 20,000 residents in a decade. College Park is experiencing development pressure from its proximity to Hartsfield-Jackson, the world's busiest airport. Union City and Fairburn are attracting new investment as South Fulton County becomes increasingly desirable. For long-time residents, that growth has meant rising property taxes, rents that have outpaced wages, and HOA boards that can foreclose on homeowners over minor disputes. Georgia currently has no meaningful anti-displacement statute, no statewide tenant protections, and no meaningful limits on institutional investor speculation in residential communities.
Courtney's Position
Housing and Affordability
Rents are rising. Long-time residents are being displaced. Georgia has no meaningful anti-displacement law. Courtney will fight to change that.
Support This FightLegislative Commitments
Specific actions. Not talking points.
Every item below is a specific legislative action Courtney will pursue in her first term.
- 1
Introduce legislation establishing a Community Stability and Anti-Displacement Fund providing direct assistance to long-term homeowners in high-pressure markets.
- 2
Support property tax circuit breaker legislation capping assessment increases for owner-occupied primary residences in rapidly appreciating markets.
- 3
Introduce or co-sponsor HOA foreclosure reform requiring mediation and proportional remedies before foreclosure can proceed.
- 4
Push for increased appropriations to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs for rental assistance and housing counseling programs.
- 5
Support legislation limiting institutional investor bulk purchases of single-family homes in residential communities.
- 6
Advocate for inclusionary development guidelines tying major development approvals to affordable unit commitments.
What Courtney Says
The argument in her own words.
"The families who built South Fulton, College Park, and Union City should not be the last ones who can afford to live there."
"Rising property taxes are being used as a displacement mechanism against homeowners who have done nothing wrong. I will fight for relief that keeps families in their homes."
"When institutional investors buy thousands of single-family homes in a community, they are not investing in it. They are extracting from it."
"Georgia has no meaningful tenant protections. That is not a market outcome. That is a political choice. I will fight to change it."
"Growth that benefits only those who arrived is not prosperity. It is displacement with a construction permit."
Your Community
What this solution means where you live.
The same fight shows up differently depending on where you are in District 68.
South Fulton
South Fulton is growing. The question is: growing for whom? Courtney will fight to ensure that growth benefits the families who are already here, not just developers and investors who see opportunity in their displacement.
College Park
Development pressure around Hartsfield-Jackson is real and intensifying. College Park families who have built their lives here deserve legal protections that ensure they are not the collateral damage of airport-driven economic growth.
Union City
Union City homeowners are watching their property values rise and their tax bills follow. For families on fixed incomes, that is not prosperity. It is displacement with paperwork. Courtney will fight for tax relief that lets families stay.
Fairburn
Fairburn is at the edge of the development wave moving south from the airport corridor. Getting ahead of displacement pressure now, before it becomes crisis, is the job of a representative who is paying attention.