“Saturday Night Live” comedian Michael Che said Wednesday that he is paying one month of rent for all 160 public housing tenants in the building in which his late grandmother once lived.

“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 in an Instagram post. “Obviously I can’t offer much help by myself, but in the spirit and memory of my late grandmother, I’m paying one months rent for all 160 apartments in the ... building she lived in.”

Che said his gesture is a “drop in the bucket” and he hopes the city has a “better plan for debt forgiveness for all people in public housing, AT THE VERY LEAST.”

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“Let’s fix this!” Che wrote.

New York put in place a 90-day moratorium on evictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it does not wipe away the rent tenants owe landlords. More than 22 million people have filed for unemployment during the past several weeks, the Department of Labor reported early Thursday.

Che clarified in a comment that his grandmother had not lived in the building since around 1990, but he said the building is “very significant” in his family’s history.

Che announced his grandmother died from COVID-19 on April 6 in a since-deleted Instagram post, Deadline reported.

He also acknowledged his grandmother’s death in the latest episode of SNL, the first in which the cast put together the show from remote locations amid the coronavirus pandemic.