North Fulton is facing a housing crisis affecting thousands of working-class families. Rent has increased dramatically, while the minimum wage has remained stagnant, unable to keep pace with the rising cost of homes. Essential workers, teachers, nurses, and city workers can’t afford to live where they work. Meanwhile, investors and corporate landlords are buying entire neighborhoods. Legislators have ignored this reality, promoting a status quo that Aaron’s district can't be one for working-class families. But no one should feel priced out of a district they love.

As a state representative, Aaron will fight to end Georgia’s ban on rent control, strengthen tenant protections, end corporate tenant gouging, cap Georgia Power rate increases, advocate for a higher minimum wage, and promote state investment in daycare.

The Problem:

• Rising rent has constrained rental affordability. Median housing prices in Sandy Springs have nearly doubled over the last nine years, increasing from $270,000 in 2016 to $415,000 in 2025. This has left, on average, 56% of renters housing cost burdened, meaning they spend more than 30% of their annual income on housing costs. This statistic is echoed throughout Georgia, increasing traffic congestion, disrupting students’ lives as they experience “rent hopping,” and decreasing Georgian’s overall quality of life. 

• The working class has been priced out of their neighborhoods. Aaron’s district can no longer house the very people responsible for keeping cities running. Essential workers, teachers, nurses, and city workers have been priced out of their neighborhoods. Corporations have bought out the market, purchasing low and middle-income homes only to tear them down and replace them with properties worth millions of dollars. Corporations should never come before people.  

• Georgia’s housing crisis is likely to exacerbate without urgent intervention. The housing challenge is expected to persist with no end in sight, as rent increases annually by 4.2% and home prices appreciate by 7.5% each year. Without urgent action, thousands of Georgia residents in Aaron’s district will be forced to move or become unhoused.
  

The Solution: 

As a state representative, Aaron will not only hold leading actors accountable but also work to provide relief for everyday expenses that exacerbate the financial burden of housing. When done right, Georgians can expect to see reduced homelessness, lower crime rates, lower child poverty rates, and increased state and municipal revenues. 

Specifically, Aaron will: 

• End Georgia’s ban on rent control: Georgia state law prohibits the implementation of rent control, allowing landlords to raise rent as they see fit, with minimum prior notice to tenants. Because of a lack of regulation, Georgians are experiencing the sixth-largest rent increase nationwide. Rent control laws stabilize rent and provide housing stability. As a State Representative, Aaron will work to end Georgia’s ban on rent control and adamantly support legislation that enacts rent control at the city and state levels. 

• Strengthen tenant protection: Too often, renters in Georgia live with holes in their walls, non-functioning appliances, mold, and rodents, with little recourse against landlords who fail to repair their homes. Strengthening laws that promote housing stability and protect tenants' living conditions is a crucial step in addressing this housing crisis. As a State Representative, Aaron will work to expand the “Safe at Home Act” to further define what “fit for human habitation” means and clarify the remedies available to a tenant for a landlord’s breach. 

• Increase the minimum wage: Workers can only pay their rent and mortgages if they make a livable wage. However, Georgia’s minimum wage is currently set at $5.15 per hour, leaving the federal minimum wage of $7.25 as the only real floor for pay. As Georgia’s housing costs surge, every Georgian deserves a livable wage that can at least keep pace with the housing market. Aaron is committed to introducing legislation to increase the minimum wage in Georgia to $25 an hour. See Aaron’s plan on raising the minimum wage in Georgia for more information!