Navasota’s adopted 2025 Strategic Plan identifies lack of affordable housing, rental options, and diverse housing types as a key weakness under its Community and Economic Development focus area. The plan calls for assessing zoning and building codes to encourage a variety of housing opportunities, including affordable housing, townhomes, and rentals, and explicitly references development and implementation of a Unified Development Code (UDC) and a more robust code-enforcement and rental oversight program. This is a clear policy-level signal that the city intends to reshape its land use framework to support more housing production and redevelopment. Vendors in planning, zoning, housing consulting, legal drafting, and code-enforcement technology can offer assistance in UDC development, housing market analysis, inclusionary and incentive structures, and the systems and staffing needed to manage expanded code enforcement and rental oversight—steps that typically precede site-specific affordable housing projects and related infrastructure upgrades.

Plan also contemplates business improvement grants and incentives to encourage rehabilitation of exi...