The foreign housing deduction and exclusion are the same thing, but one applies to employer-provided compensation like wages (the exclusion) and the other applies to self-employment earnings (the deduction.) So, your choice of exclusion versus deduction is dependent on the type of income you report.
When you go through the foreign earned income section in TurboTax, you are asked to enter your foreign housing expenses in addition to your foreign earned income, and the program calculates your maximum foreign earned income exclusion based on those entries.
Here is more on the subject: Foreign earned income exclusion or deduction
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