ROCHESTER, N.Y. — ​Dozens are demanding housing for homeless people around the greater Rochester area.

The Rochester Homeless Union held a rally Friday outside the Cadillac Hotel on Chestnut Street. They’re demanding the hotel be reopened to people living on the streets before colder weather hits Rochester.

Organizers are also calling on the city and the county legislature to commit to housing every homeless resident in the Rochester by October 15.

“We need the Cadillac,” said Crystal Lenear of House of Mercy. “We need it for the people that they kicked out. DSS is not working. The system is not working. We don’t want to see anybody dying and our shelter is going to get packed.

The hotel previously housed the city’s homeless individuals until it closed for renovations back in 2018.