DSA co-chair lives in $1 million Brooklyn home bought by his parents

Gustavo Gordillo, the 38-year-old co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, lives in a renovated two-story row house on a gentrifying block in Bed-Stuy. Property records show his parents bought the nearly 2,000-square-foot home in 2019 through the shell corporation Chucuito LLC for just under $1 million, and have since funded extensive upgrades, including a new front façade, landscaping, interior remodels and roof decks.

Despite his organization’s calls for land redistribution and criticism of landlords on platforms such as one outlet, Gordillo’s father confirmed that both he and his brother occupy the Brooklyn residence and that the same LLC rented Gordillo a Lower East Side unit for $2,600 a month between 2016 and 2019. Gordillo, a Yale 2010 graduate, previously worked at an art gallery and entered the IBEW in 2019 but has not completed the seven-year journeyman track, later stating he is no longer an electrician. Calls to him went unanswered, leaving his current source of income unclear.