• Davis, J. (2026). Fragmentation in housing governance: How states approach streamlining the delivery of affordable housing through administrative and structural reforms. Forthcoming in Cityscape.
  
  
• Davis, J., Song, T. & Chapple, K. (2026). How does upzoning impact residential mobility among low-income households? Evidence from New York City. Housing Policy Debate.
  
  
• Rong, H., Davis, J. & Rada-Orellana, M. (2025). Benchmarking large language models against qualitative coding and natural language processing in decoding public sentiment on urban upzoning. Urban Informatics. [Equal Authorship]
  
  
• Davis, J. & Cassel, A. (2025). Investigating the tenant selection practices of accessory dwelling unit (ADU) landlords on Long Island. City & Community.
  
  
• Davis, J. (2024). How does real estate investor ownership mediate accessory dwelling unit (ADU) asking rents? Evidence from Austin, TX. Housing Policy Debate.
  
  
• Davis, J., Rong, H. & Huennekens, J. (2023). Perceptions towards upzoning: A parcel-level analysis of public sentiments towards the Minneapolis 2040 Plan. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 
  
  
• Davis, J. & Huennekens, J. (2022). YIMBY divided: A qualitative content analysis of YIMBY subreddit data. Journal of Urban Affairs. [Recipient of the 2025 UAA Best Article in the Journal of Urban Affairs Award]
  
  
• Davis, J. (2021). How do upzonings impact neighborhood demographic change? Examining the link between land use policy and gentrification in New York City. Land Use Policy, 103.
  
  
• Davis, J., & Renski, H. (2020). Do industrial preservation policies protect and promote urban industrial activity? Examining the impact of New York City’s Industrial Business Zone Program. Journal of the American Planning Association, 1-12.

• Davis, J. (2025). [Review of the book Affordable Housing in the United States, by Gregg Colburn and Rebecca J. Walter]. Journal of the American Planning Association.
  
  
• Davis, J. (2022). [Review of the book Squatters in the Capitalist City: Housing, Justice, and Urban Politics, by Miguel A. Martinez]. Journal of Urban Affairs.
  
  
• Davis, J. (2021). [Review of the book The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping It There), by Shane Phillips]. Journal of Planning Literature.
  

   Policy Reports

• Davis, J. & Karlinsky, S. (2026). The Cost of Fragmentation: A Comparison of State Affordable Housing Finance Governance Systems. Terner Center for Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley.
  
  
• Davis, J. & Champeny, A. (2018). New York City Homeowners: Who’s Got the Unfairest Tax Burden of Them All? The Citizens Budget Commission.
  
  
• Shaw-Amoah, A., Davis, J., MacFarlane, K., Greer, K., Barth, R., Tolbert, J. & Clifton, T. (2017). On the Map: The Atlas of Student Homelessness in New York City 2017. The Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness.
  
  
• Erb-Downward, J., Shaw-Amoah, A., Davis, J., MacFarlane, K., Greer, K. & Barth, R. (2017). On the Map: The Dynamics of Family Homelessness in New York City 2017. The Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness.
  
  
• da Costa Nunez, R., Cohen, L., Kannegaard, J., Davis, J. & Stein, C. (2017). Washington’s Homeless Student Population Grew by 30% in 3 years. The Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness.
  
  
• da Costa Nunez, R., de Leon, E., Kannegaard, J., Davis, J. & Stein, C. (2016). New York Has the 3rd Highest Percentage of Homeless Students in the U.S. The Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness.


• da Costa Nunez, R., Erb-Downward, J., Cohen, L., Shaw-Amoah, A., Kaur, N., Davis, J. ... Smiley, O. (2016). On the Map: The Atlas of Student Homelessness in New York City 2016. New York, NY. The Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness.