New website lets you choose apartments based on who you voted for

TORONTO – A new website designed for apartment hunters is offering more information to help users find a place to call home.

Political choices are now a part of the mix.

The website, NomadTO, launched recently and uses Toronto election results as an option for filtering apartments along with the number of bedrooms and preferred price range.

“What we’re doing is trying to give people information about their neighbourhood,” Noah Taylor, the site’s founder said. “Really give interesting characteristics you might not find simply by looking at a posting.”

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From the main page, you can choose any number of the city’s 140 neighbourhoods. There are also tabs for the size of apartment and the amount the tenant would be able to pay in rent every month.

A separate button includes choices for who you voted for in both the 2014 and 2010 Toronto elections.

All the information is then filtered to provide a list of spaces available in the neighbourhoods and wards where your preferred candidate had the most support.

“Right now is obviously elections and elections are the big buzz,” Taylor said. “Our goal with the website is to really stay as current as possible so we decided to add this extra piece of information.”

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Taylor’s motivation for creating the site was moving back to Toronto after seven years in New York. He simply didn’t have enough information in one place.

“I found the task incredibly daunting,” he said.

The political lines over the last two municipal elections have been sharp though.

This year, Doug Ford found support in Etobicoke and Scarborough, Olivia Chow’s base was west of the downtown core and John Tory won the election with the central part of Toronto.

Will deciding on a neighbourhood based on political choices divide the city even further?

“I really don’t think that individuals are going to use election results to ultimate decide where they’re going to live,” Taylor said. “What we were doing was more light-hearted and current.”

The website is still in its beta version. More data, including crime statistics, are expected to be added soon.