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deal with a battle to discover food and someplace dry to sleep when flood waters recede and short-lived shelters shut.

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

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

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

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

She stated the homeless were trying to discover any dry locations they could sleep throughout a northern NSW area already dealing with a dire scarcity of cost effective housing.

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

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

The Byron Shire local federal 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 absolutely do have a housing issue in the Northern Rivers and we need services," Ms Kennedy said.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said evacuation centres set up in schools, universities, health clubs and clubs could not function as a long-term repair to entrenched real estate problems in the region.

"I am fully conscious of the considerable difficulties for housing in the Northern Rivers, but 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 areas once local emergency orders were raised, Mr Minns included.

"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 cautions in NSW on Monday early morning, while 1800 individuals were isolated by floodwaters.

About 10,000 homes and services were still not linked to power as heavy rain continued to fall in many 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, between Tweed Heads and Byron Bay, a whale carcass was amongst the debris that cleaned up after substantial swells damaged the coastline for days.

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

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

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

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