A year after the city's homeless population ticked up sharply, advocates say fewer people are living on Oklahoma City streets, according to numbers released Thursday.

But the news isn't all good. Despite success in reducing the number of homeless people overall, advocates are facing challenges in finding housing for certain segments of the homeless population, including families with children.

The city's annual Point-in-Time report showed a 10 percent drop in the number of homeless people living in Oklahoma City. Those numbers are based on an annual tally of the number of homeless people living in shelters, transitional housing, outdoors and elsewhere on a single day every year.

This year, volunteers counted 1,368 homeless people in the city on Jan. 26, down from 1,511 during last year's count. Advocates estimate the city's homeless population for the entire year is between four and five times the number tallied in the single-day count. That estimate would place the total population somewhere between 5,472 and 6,840 for the year.