The millionaire parents of a whiny top DSA leader have set up their socialist son in a $1.5 million Brooklyn home — where he lives while railing against the rich and property ownership, The Post has learned.
Gustavo Gordillo, the 38-year-old co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, is peddling his anti-capitalist lefty agenda while enjoying the life in the two-story, nearly 2,000-square-foot row home on a gentrifying tree-lined block in Bed-Stuy.
“I wish my family could afford to buy me a million-dollar home,” said local renter Faith Smith, 36 — who called the socialist Yale University grad a hypocrite.
Gustavo Gordillo, the co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, lives in an expensive house purchased by his parents. Cindy Schultz for NY Post
The Bed-Stuy house that Gordillo’s parents purchased for just under a $1 million. William C Lopez/NYPost
“It’s a rich kid,’’ she said of the Yalie. “That’s basically people who don’t have to deal with the struggles we have to deal with.”
The Ivy League radical’s converted single-family home was bought in 2019 by his mommy and daddy through a dummy corporation, Chucuito LLC, for just under $1 million, property records show.
Since then, it has undergone a major facelift, with renovations done to its entire front facade, the planting of lush landscaping, the revamping of the interior and the addition a pair of decks on the roof as well as near the front door, according to plans filed with the borough in 2023.
Updates to the property continued Tuesday at least on its second floor, The Post observed.
“My son and my other son both live there,” Gordillo’s father said when reached by phone. “The LLC purchased the home, and then we did the renovations.”
Gordillo’s father confirmed to The Post that Gustavo and his brother both live in the Brooklyn house. William C Lopez/NYPost
Gordillo and his DSA comrades have meanwhile railed against property ownership, calling for a redistribution of land “from landowners to the landless.”
Gordillo also recently attacked landlords in a vitriolic interview on Fox News last month, when he offered up little sympathy for property and other business owners who skate by with small margins.
“We don’t think that anybody should have the constitutional right to double-digit returns on their investment,” he said.
Gordillo has often touted himself as a blue-collar union electrician, with his X handle @UnionGordillo.
But since 2024, he has stopped referring to himself as an IBEW Local 3 member and instead identified as just some form of a union worker.
Reports show he joined the IBEW in 2019, but there are no records indicating he made it through the seven-year journeymen process.
He told the New York Times earlier this year he was no longer an electrician.
It is unclear what he does to earn a paycheck.
Before coming to the Big Apple, Gordillo studied art at Yale University, where he graduated from in 2010.
Gordillo’s father confirmed to The Post that the lefty and his brother live in the revamped Brooklyn spot — after admitting that the dad had rented a place for the DSA leader on the Lower East Side for $2,600 a month through the same LLC between 2016 and 2019.
Gordillo worked at an art gallery during those years before becoming an electrician, according to City and State.
Gordillo and other DSA members have railed against private property ownership and landlords. William C Lopez/NYPost
It was unclear whether Gordillo, who listed the LES one-bed, one-bath as his primary residence at that time, repaid his parents for rent.
Calls to him were not returned.
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An immigrant from Peru, Gordillo grew up in South Florida with his parents, who ended up thriving in America.
The parents now own a sprawling more than 5,000-square-foot, five-bed, six-bath home in Boca Raton that is currently on the market for $3.1 million, records show.
They also own another $3 million home in Weston, Fla., that is just slightly larger and has five beds and seven baths.
His dad, also Gustavo, made his money as the founder of Draftpros Inc., which specializes in engineering and consulting services.
