A report by the city Department of Investigation exposing government officials' manipulation of homeless shelter application statistics highlighted THE CITY's coverage as an example of how the press relies on the data in order to inform the public. Investigators relied on THE CITY as a factual source for their account of the political pressures on Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration to make it appear that the share of families approved to live in shelters remained low.

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