Posted on June 19, 2018 by Adam Nichols in Patch Patch, By Adam Nichols The amount of homeless people living on the streets of New York City has dropped in the past year, according to city officials citing a count that was carried out on the night of January 22. But the claim was attacked by advocates working with the city’s homeless population who called it a publicity push which used figures that were “notoriously inaccurate.”