Administered jointly by the Union County Board of County Commissioners (15 NE 1st Street, Lake Butler, FL 32054, (386) 496-4241) and its contracted housing administrator Suwannee River Economic Council, Inc. (SREC, Florida Sunbiz Document #709430, local intake at 665 SE 4th Street, Lake Butler, FL 32054, (386) 496-2342 Ext. 1, and SREC Housing Department at (386) 362-4115) under Florida Statutes §§ 420.907–420.9079 and the Florida Housing Finance Corporation (FHFC), the Union County State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) & Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) is Union County's statutory aging-in-place home preservation program. Because the vast majority of seniors in Lake Butler (32054), Raiford (32083), and Worthington Springs (32697) own older site-built homes or rural manufactured/mobile-home homesteads, the Union County SHIP and SREC Weatherization programs provide deferred-payment/forgivable loans and direct grants to very-low- and low-income senior homeowners (and disabled residents) for emergency roof replacements, ADA wheelchair ramps, tub-to-walk-in-shower conversions, bathroom grab bars, well and septic system repairs, energy-efficient HVAC/heat pump replacements, and USDA Rural Development Section 504 Very Low-Income Home Repair grants (up to $10,000 in lifetime grants for homeowners age 62+ via the USDA Lake City Area Office at (386) 755-3194).