SNL star vows to pay rent for public housing residents to honor grandmother who died of coronavirus

Saturday Night Live comedian Michael Che vowed to pay one month’s rent for the tenants living in a New York City public housing complex where his grandmother, who recently died of the coronavirus, resided.

“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,” Che wrote on Instagram on Wednesday, announcing that he would pay the rent for 160 apartments in the building where his grandmother, Martha, lived until the 1990s.