For the most part, the numbers have dropped steadily year over year since 2014, though an unrelenting downpour in 2016 caused results to plummet that year and led to an increase in 2017. And because the count is done according to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development standards, which require the same methodology across the nation, it doesn’t include the thousands of families who live in rent-by-the-week hotels or doubled up with other families, many of them in Osceola and Orange counties.