For the last two years, it’s been a ghost town along Betty Street in Marrero.
About 100 duplexes have sat vacant, with windows boarded up and some sections fenced off to discourage illegal dumping. Playgrounds once bustling with children are now rusty and falling apart.
Soon, the derelict Acre Road public housing complex — the last of its kind in Jefferson Parish — will be demolished to make way for a new affordable housing development, marking the end of the Jefferson Parish Housing Authority and the traditional public housing model as the parish completes its shift toward the Housing Choice Voucher Program, commonly known as Section 8…