Season 4, Episode 7: Jack Stone and Alex Gornik sit down with Sharon Wilson Géno, President of the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC), the leading voice for America’s apartment industry in Washington. She explains how NMHC is tackling today’s biggest issues—affordability, regulation, and capital—while separating signal from noise on rent control, tax policy, and the GSE debate.



Expect practical policy ideas cities are using now (single-stair, fast-track permitting, Florida’s “Live Local”), why Section 8 modernization matters, and what’s really driving insurance and operating costs.



TOPICS



00:00 – Introduction

01:12 – Career arc and why housing policy became the mission

06:03 – What NMHC does and who it represents

08:14 – NMHC–NAA partnership and three-level advocacy (federal/state/local)

11:01 – Public perception, renters, and reframing the “American Dream”

21:04 – Tax policy: carried interest context and a doubled LIHTC

26:26 – Rent control myths and the Housing Solutions Coalition playbook

33:06 – Real solutions: zoning fixes, single-stair, permitting, Live Local

49:42 – GSE privatization chatter: constraints and market timing

55:56 – Insurance, taxes, labor and the tech/industrialized construction edge





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