Commercial and Residential – What Can Real Estate Startups Do to Address It?

I've often wondered if there will be a way to convert CRE to RRE and after speaking with some very well-known city officials in SF and the greater peninsula, there may be a way, but it'll take the force of many to do so.

I think there's a huge value proposition here for startups (in the natural sense, not just limited to tech companies) to address the need for housing within existing complexes zoned for CRE. For one, I do not have answers to this question but I'm also curious to know how existing companies are working toward this goal.

CRE-zoned properties are here to stay and so are building restriction laws, on top of that, the cost to build is just sky-high everywhere still.

So what would you do as a startup in the RE tech space? What have you seen and what are you projections?