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Vulnerable locals face a fight to discover food and someplace dry to sleep when flood waters recede and temporary shelters shut.

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

Kim Kennedy, Vinnies' local housing and homelessness supervisor for northeast NSW, has 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 continuous rainfall inundating the space.

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

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

"It has actually been truly tough trying to get them any type of shelter."

She stated the homeless were looking for any dry locations they could sleep across a northern NSW area currently dealing with an alarming lack of budget friendly housing.

"We have actually been assisting out an entire family oversleeping their vehicle," Ms Kennedy stated.

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

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 government street count.

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

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

"I am completely familiar with the significant difficulties for real estate in the Northern Rivers, however evacuation centres are not long-term solutions ... we do not have the resources, the staffing, the time, the allowance," he said.

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

"So I want to apologise in advance but we need to draw a really clear and understood line."

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

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

Major flood warnings were still in location for parts of the Clarence and Richmond rivers, while were under method somewhere else.

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

Residents from 17 NSW local federal government locations who had lost earnings due to the storm would be qualified for federal catastrophe relief funds for as much as 13 weeks, it was announced on Monday.

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

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

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