You can only deduct the portion that you pay, which is 1/2 in this case. You could treat the reimbursement as rent income, which would allow you to deduct the full amount of the mortgage interest, partially as rental expenses and partially as itemized deduction, but then you would need to report the rent income, so it would probably give you the same or similar deduction.
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