%T Direct subsidies and housing affordability in Australian private rental markets %A Gavin A. Wood %A Matthew Forbes %A Kenneth Gibb %D 2005 %J Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy %K Housing, %K Rental housing, %K Affordable housing, %K Private rental %N 5 %P 759-783 %R 10.1068/c0445 %U https://apo.org.au/node/124216 %V 23 %X Many countries have undergone a broad retreat from the use of indirect (supply) subsidies to meet low-income housing-affordability problems, shifting to direct subsidies often linked to means-tested income-maintenance systems. %9 Journal article