A new real estate app lets users see the political affiliation of their prospective neighbors before they move in

As if the US wasn’t polarized enough, a new real estate app promises Americans the ability to retreat even further into politically isolated communities by vetting their potential neighbors for unwanted party affiliation. The Oyssey application which account yourself as a “real estate search management platform,” includes a feature that allows prospective homebuyers to gauge the political leanings of their potential neighbors before they move in.

“Beyond the standard search filters, Oyssey are pioneers who have never before offered block-by-block social and political data,” the app’s website says. The platform pulls this information from “election results and campaign contributions, along with housing trends and other social data,” writes the New York Post.

“It’s about getting buyers the homes they love,” Oyssey CEO Hugh Nirenberg told Axios, which wrote about the unique feature of the application. Nirenberg also said he’s on a mission to “democratize search data in the home.”

Oyssey, which is a relatively new company and only recently launched in South Florida and New York this October, also provides users with a host of other local demographics, including information about the age, education and income of potential neighbors.

One of the more intriguing pieces of data Oyssey offers is the ability to tell how many dogs live in your neighborhood. If you live in a place like New York, this is really useful information. Either A) you like dogs and want to know where you can see as many as possible, or B) you hate having to go around dog crap when you leave your apartment and want to know where they’re least likely to live . Overall a good feature.

As for the political screening element of Oyssey’s proposals, there is clearly more cause for concern. On the one hand, you can understand why home buyers would want this kind of information. Who doesn’t want to know who their neighbors are? On the other hand, it might not be such a good idea to incentivize people to live only with people who are already like them. Plus, in a place like New York, I don’t think you’ll get a whole lots of political diversityanyway.

Gizmodo reached out to Oyssey for a more detailed picture of where he gets all his data.