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Vulnerable residents deal with a battle to find food and someplace dry to sleep when flood waters decline and short-lived shelters shut.

Nearly 800 individuals have actually looked for sanctuary in NSW evacuation centres however their status as pop-up homes for some will disappear after the impact of ex-tropical cyclone Alfred passes.

Kim Kennedy, Vinnies' regional housing and homelessness manager for northeast NSW, has actually been on the front lines supporting people sleeping rough in flooded zones.

Her task was made harder on Monday due to harm to Fred's Place, the Tweed Heads drop-in centre where she is based, with constant rains swamping the area.

On any given day, the centre serves about 130 hot meals to those in need but showers and are out of commission until the flood damage is fixed.

"It has been a horrendous time for the homeless community," Ms Kennedy informed AAP.

"It has actually been truly difficult attempting to get them any kind of shelter."

She stated the homeless were searching for any dry locations they could sleep throughout a northern NSW region currently handling a dire scarcity of budget friendly housing.

"We've been assisting a whole household sleeping in their vehicle," Ms Kennedy said.

"Seeing them in this horrendous weather condition is really awful."

The Byron Shire city government location, south of Tweed Heads, had the most rough sleepers of any council area in the state, according to a 2024 federal government street count.

"We definitely do have a real estate problem in the Northern Rivers and we require options," Ms Kennedy said.

NSW Premier Chris Minns stated evacuation centres set up in schools, universities, gyms and clubs might not act as a long-lasting fix to established housing problems in the region.

"I am fully knowledgeable about the substantial obstacles for housing in the Northern Rivers, but evacuation centres are not irreversible options ... we do not have the resources, the staffing, the time, the allotment," he said.

The centres would close in all areas once local emergency situation orders were raised, Mr Minns included.

"So I wish to apologise beforehand but we have to draw an extremely clear and understood line."

More than 10,000 individuals were under emergency cautions in NSW on Monday early morning, while 1800 individuals were separated by floodwaters.

About 10,000 homes and businesses were still not linked to power as heavy rain continued to fall in many areas.

Major flood warnings were still in place for parts of the Clarence and Richmond rivers, while clean-up operations were under way elsewhere.

In Pottsville, in between Tweed Heads and Byron Bay, a whale carcass was among the particles that washed up after substantial swells battered the shoreline for days.

Residents from 17 NSW city government areas who had actually lost income due to the storm would be qualified for federal catastrophe relief funds for approximately 13 weeks, it was revealed on Monday.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the financial backing would be backed by psychological health services for affected locations.

"We have actually got your back, that's my message to neighborhoods here," he stated from Lismore on Monday.

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