The foreign housing deduction is limited by your foreign earned income exclusion. Without a foreign earned income exclusion, you can't qualify for the housing deduction. They are interrelated. So, if don't have any foreign earned income because you were laid off, you won't qualify for a foreign housing exclusion/deduction.
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