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Vulnerable homeowners face a battle to discover food and someplace dry to sleep when flood waters recede and short-lived shelters shut.

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

Kim Kennedy, Vinnies' regional real estate and homelessness manager for northeast NSW, has actually been on the cutting edge supporting people sleeping rough in flooded zones.

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

On any given day, the centre serves about 130 hot meals to those in requirement however showers and laundry centers run out commission till the flood damage is repaired.

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

"It has actually been actually challenging trying to get them any kind of shelter."

She stated the homeless were looking for any dry locations they could sleep across a northern NSW region currently handling an alarming lack of cost effective real estate.

"We've been assisting out a whole household oversleeping their automobile," Ms Kennedy said.

"Seeing them in this horrendous weather is actually dreadful."

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

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

NSW Premier Chris Minns said evacuation centres established in schools, universities, gyms and clubs might not act as a long-lasting repair to entrenched real estate issues in the area.

"I am completely conscious of the substantial challenges for housing in the Northern Rivers, however evacuation centres are not long-term solutions ... we do not have the resources, the staffing, the time, the allotment," he stated.

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

"So I wish to apologise beforehand however we need to draw a really clear and understood line."

More than 10,000 individuals were under emergency warnings in NSW on Monday morning, while 1800 people were isolated by floodwaters.

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

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

In Pottsville, between Tweed Heads and Byron Bay, a whale carcass was amongst the debris that cleaned up after substantial swells the shoreline for days.

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

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated the financial assistance would be backed by psychological health services for impacted locations.

"We've got your back, that's my message to communities here," he said from Lismore on Monday.

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