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Vulnerable residents deal with a fight to discover food and someplace dry to sleep when flood waters decline and short-term shelters shut.

Nearly 800 people have actually sought haven in NSW evacuation centres but their status as pop-up homes for some will stop 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 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 rains inundating the area.

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

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

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

She stated the homeless were looking for any dry places they could sleep throughout a northern NSW region already dealing with an alarming lack of inexpensive housing.

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

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

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 federal government street count.

"We definitely do have a real estate problem in the Northern Rivers and we need options," Ms Kennedy stated.

NSW Premier Chris Minns stated evacuation centres established in schools, universities, health clubs and clubs might not act as a long-term fix to established housing issues in the area.

"I am fully mindful of the substantial difficulties for real estate in the Northern Rivers, but evacuation centres are not irreversible solutions ... we don't have the resources, the staffing, the time, the allotment," he said.

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

"So I want to apologise in advance but we have to draw an extremely clear and understood line."

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

About 10,000 homes and organizations were still not linked to power as heavy rain continued to fall in many areas.

Major flood warnings 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 washed up after big swells battered the coastline for days.

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

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated the monetary support would be backed by psychological health services for affected locations.

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

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