Tammany Parish after a dispute over temporary residences, but the area still faces a housing crunch after Hurricane Katrina.

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Housing construction was crackling before 2004 because of Congress' virtual elimination of the capital gains tax on primary residences in 1997.

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And just last week, housing-management authorities in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, introduced a policy that rewards home buyers who purchase already finished residences.

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