SNL's Michael Che honors his grandmother, who died from COVID-19, by covering rent for everyone in her building

"Weekend Update" co-host Michael Che announced Wednesday that he plans to cover a month's worth of rent for all 160 tenants in his late grandmother's apartment building.

"It's crazy to me that residents of public housing are still expected to pay their rent when so many New Yorkers can't even work," the Saturday Night Live star wrote in a post on Instagram. He added a postscript calling for Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Diddy to help "fix this," asking for "a better plan for debt forgiveness for all the people in public housing, AT THE VERY LEAST."

Che's grandmother, who lived in one of New York City's 300-plus public housing projects, died on April 5 from COVID-19, the New York Daily News reports.

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