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Vulnerable residents deal with a battle to discover food and someplace dry to sleep when flood waters recede and temporary shelters shut.

Nearly 800 individuals have actually sought haven in NSW evacuation centres however 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 actually been on the front lines 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 rains inundating the area.

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

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

"It has been truly 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 region currently handling a dire lack of inexpensive housing.

"We've been assisting out an entire family oversleeping their car," Ms Kennedy stated.

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

The Byron Shire city government area, 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 absolutely do have a real estate issue in the Northern Rivers and we need solutions," Ms Kennedy said.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said evacuation centres established in schools, universities, gyms and clubs could not act as a long-lasting repair to entrenched housing problems in the region.

"I am totally aware of the substantial challenges for real estate 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 locations once regional emergency situation orders were lifted, Mr Minns included.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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