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Vulnerable homeowners deal with a fight to find food and somewhere dry to sleep when flood waters decline and temporary shelters shut.

Nearly 800 people have sought refuge 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' local housing and homelessness manager for northeast NSW, has actually been on the cutting edge 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 rainfall inundating the space.

On any given 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 been a horrendous time for the homeless neighborhood," Ms Kennedy told AAP.

"It has actually been truly challenging attempting to get them any type of shelter."

She stated the homeless were trying to discover any dry locations they might sleep across a northern NSW region already handling a dire shortage of cost effective real estate.

"We have actually been assisting an entire household sleeping in their cars and truck," Ms Kennedy stated.

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

The regional 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 definitely do have a real estate issue in the Northern Rivers and we require solutions," Ms Kennedy said.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said evacuation centres set up in schools, universities, health clubs and clubs might not act as a long-lasting repair to established housing issues in the area.

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

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

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

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

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

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 substantial swells damaged the shoreline for days.

Residents from 17 NSW city government areas who had lost earnings 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 stated the monetary assistance would be backed by mental health services for impacted locations.

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

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