Vulnerable homeowners deal with a fight to discover food and someplace dry to sleep when flood waters decline and temporary shelters shut.

Nearly 800 individuals have actually looked for haven in NSW evacuation centres however their status as pop-up homes for some will stop to exist after the effect of ex-tropical cyclone Alfred passes.

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

Her job was made harder on Monday due to harm to Fred's Place, the Tweed Heads drop-in centre where she is based, with constant rainfall flooding the space.

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

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

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

She stated the homeless were trying to find any dry places they could sleep across a northern NSW area already handling a dire lack of cost effective housing.

"We've been helping out a whole family 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 options," Ms Kennedy stated.

NSW Premier Chris Minns stated evacuation centres established in schools, universities, health clubs and clubs could not serve as a long-lasting fix to entrenched housing problems in the area.

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

The centres would close in all locations once regional emergency orders were lifted, Mr Minns added.

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

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

About 10,000 homes and organizations were still not connected to power as heavy rain continued to fall in lots of areas.

Major flood cautions were still in location for parts of the Clarence and Richmond rivers, while clean-up operations were under method in other places.

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

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

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

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

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