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The campaign to vacate military housing is not effective fundamentally because the ownership rights of such housing is blurry. Those who get their hands on public property are reluctant to just let it go."

ZHANG QINGYIN, an officer who works at a military housing office, said in Southern Weekly on Thursday. Military officials are ordered to give back extra properties and are asked to give up public housing if they have bought cheaper apartments with government or military subsidies, according to military regulations.