Socialist Ivy Leaguer who complains about the rich lives in luxury $1.5 MILLION Brooklyn home paid for by his Peruvian parents

DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo made headlines in July for his claims to be of the working class, his praise for city-run grocery store plans in New York City, and for talking about how much his family struggled when they came to the United States. Now it turns out that, like so many other larping socialist kids, his family has gobs of money and assets.

Gordillo lives in a $1.5 million Brooklyn home that's owned by his parents. The two-story, 2,000-square-foot home in Bed-Stuy, a neighborhood that has been increasing in value over the past few decades, "was bought in 2019 by his mommy and daddy through a dummy corporation, Chucuito LLC, for just under $1 million," the New York Post reports. 

After that initial buy, the home was renovated, landscaping was installed, decks were added to the roof and front, and Gordillo and his brother moved in. Gordillo's father confirmed it, saying, "my son and my other son both live there. The LLC purchased the home, and then we did the renovations."

Speaking to Fox News' Martha MacCallum in July, Gordillo said of his parents, "My dad, his first job in the United States was working at Wendy's, my mom's first job was a house cleaner, and they did make a living for themselves and they had success." His parents came from Peru and raised their family in South Florida, where they currently own a massive, $3.1 million home in Boca Raton. They own another, $3 million property in Weston, Florida and father Gustavo founded Draftpros Inc., an engineering and consulting services company.

Gordillo claimed to MacCallum that he believes his parents are "an exception. When I see the people of my generation, my friends, they feel like they can't afford to have a family anymore. The prices have skyrocketed so much. New York City has become such a playground for the rich that young people feel like they can't live here and have babies anymore."

His parents were not only successful after the meager beginnings he touted, they were so successful that they could start an LLC and buy additional properties in the city Gordillo claims is too expensive for people of his generation to live in. Turns out it's not too expensive if you have rich parents who buy a home for you and your brother then commit to renovations to make it even better.

The DSA has no time for private property, or so their rhetoric goes. They believe that private property ownership is some kind of crime and governments are better suited to manage property and ensure housing than either private owners or a free market system. "The problem we're facing in our housing system is that we talk about tenants and we say 'they have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, they have to be responsible financially,' but when we look at the landlords we don't use those same standards."

Those landlords are his parents, whose property has increased by half a million dollars in value since they purchased it just seven years ago. Gordillo slammed the profit margin he said was typical for landlords, 12%, saying he doesn't believe that "anyone should have a constitutional right to double-digit returns on their investment... No one has a right, that's not in the Constitution."

Gordillo has claimed to be a union electrician with the IBEW, but the union he has claimed to be part of has no records that he actually completed the 7-year journeyman process to become the thing he claims to be. He's a Yale University grad and has also worked at an art gallery. Before he moved into the Bed-Stuy home, Gordillo's family paid for him to rent an apartment on the Lower East Side for $2,600 per month from 2016-19.