The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released its fiscal year 2022 annual FOIA report. Here are the highlights:

• 1819 requests received, an increase of 4.9 percent from FY 2021 (1734 requests)

• 2031 requests processed, a decrease of 2.9 percent from FY 2021 (2093 requests)

• Backlogged requests stood at 626 requests at the end of FY 2022, a reduction of 22.5 percent from FY 2021 (808 requests).

• The average response time for all processed perfected requests was 80.17 days for “simple” requests and 276 days for “complex” requests.

• Processing costs and litigation costs amounted to $7.17 million. The Department reported only $100,535 in total costs for FY 2021, which undoubtedly was an error.

• Fees collected for processing requests amounted to $12,372, less than one-fifth of one percent of its total costs.