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Vulnerable locals deal with a fight to find food and somewhere dry to sleep when flood waters recede and short-lived shelters shut.

Nearly 800 people have actually sought haven in NSW evacuation centres but 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 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 constant rainfall swamping the area.

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

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

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

She stated the homeless were looking for any dry locations they might sleep throughout a northern NSW region already handling a dire lack of cost effective housing.

"We have actually been assisting out an entire household oversleeping their cars and truck," Ms Kennedy said.

"Seeing them in this horrendous weather condition is actually horrible."

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

"We definitely do have a housing problem in the Northern Rivers and we need services," Ms Kennedy stated.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said evacuation centres set up in schools, universities, fitness centers and clubs could not function as a long-term repair to established housing problems in the region.

"I am fully familiar with the substantial challenges for housing in the Northern Rivers, however evacuation centres are not long-term services ... we do not have the resources, the staffing, the time, the allotment," he said.

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

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

More than 10,000 people were under emergency cautions in NSW on Monday 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 numerous locations.

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

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

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

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated the financial backing would be backed by mental health services for affected areas.

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

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