The Rochester Homeless Union and its supporters are demonstrating outside the Cadillac Hotel Tuesday afternoon in downtown Rochester.
The Homeless Union wants the hotel to be used as housing for the poor.
Don Adams is with that group and says the issue hits close to home for him.
"I was homeless, I’m part of the Homeless Union here from the House of Mercy and I want them to know that because we're homeless were not different, people look down on us."
Adams claims nothing is being done with the building right now, and says they could be housing people instead of letting it stay empty.
"I would think of it as just okay if you’re not gonna do nothing with it, turn it over to us, let us do something, what’s the worst thing that can happen to it, it can sit there and no body live in it."
Advocates will march from the Cadillac Hotel to the Monroe County Executive building, but a spokesperson for Monroe County says they don’t have a role in the development of the Cadillac Hotel, and stopped placing people there in 2016.
DHD Ventures, a local development company, bought the hotel last year. Plans for its future are still unclear.
The company has not yet returned a request for comment.