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Vulnerable locals deal with a battle to find food and someplace dry to sleep when flood waters decline and temporary shelters shut.

Nearly 800 people have sought haven 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' local housing and homelessness supervisor for northeast NSW, has been on the cutting edge supporting individuals 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 continuous rainfall inundating the space.

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

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

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

She said the homeless were looking for any dry locations they could sleep across a northern NSW area currently dealing with an alarming shortage of inexpensive real estate.

"We've been assisting an entire family sleeping in their car," Ms Kennedy said.

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

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

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

NSW Premier Chris Minns stated evacuation centres set up in schools, universities, fitness centers and clubs might not serve as a long-term repair to established housing problems in the area.

"I am fully conscious of the considerable challenges for real estate in the Northern Rivers, however evacuation centres are not permanent services ... we do not have the resources, the staffing, the time, the allocation," he stated.

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

"So I desire to apologise ahead of time however we have to draw an extremely clear and understood line."

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

About 10,000 homes and companies were still not connected 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 way somewhere else.

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

Residents from 17 NSW regional federal government areas who had lost income due to the storm would be eligible for federal catastrophe relief funds for as much as 13 weeks, it was announced on Monday.

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

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

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