If it wasn’t for emergency shelters, many young people in Lexington would be living on the street. One woman knows that first-hand after working at a shelter on West Third Street, operated by Arbor Youth Services.
NeCee Anderson said conditions at the shelter for at-risk and homeless residents, ages 18 to 24, are “deplorable.”
“There’s holes in the walls, there’s weak floors, there’s a retaining wall that is literally crumbling and only being held with a plastic sheeting to keep the kids from stepping on the rocks,” said Anderson, who worked there until recently…