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Vulnerable residents face a fight to find food and someplace dry to sleep when flood waters decline and short-lived shelters shut.

Nearly 800 people have actually looked for haven in NSW evacuation centres but their status as pop-up homes for some will cease to exist after the impact of ex-tropical cyclone Alfred passes.

Kim Kennedy, Vinnies' regional housing and homelessness supervisor for northeast NSW, has been on the front lines 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 flooding the space.

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

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

"It has been really tough trying to get them any kind of shelter."

She said the homeless were looking for any dry places they could sleep throughout a northern NSW area already dealing with a dire lack of budget friendly real estate.

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

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

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 federal government street count.

"We definitely do have a housing problem in the Northern Rivers and we require solutions," Ms Kennedy said.

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

"I am completely familiar with the significant difficulties for housing in the Northern Rivers, however evacuation centres are not long-term options ... we don't have the resources, the staffing, the time, the allocation," he said.

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

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

More than 10,000 people were under emergency cautions in NSW on Monday early 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 warnings were still in location for parts of the Clarence and Richmond rivers, while clean-up operations were under way elsewhere.

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

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

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

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

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