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Vulnerable homeowners face a fight to find food and someplace dry to sleep when flood waters recede and temporary shelters shut.

Nearly 800 people have actually sought sanctuary in NSW evacuation centres but their status as pop-up homes for some will disappear after the effect of ex-tropical cyclone Alfred passes.

Kim Kennedy, Vinnies' local real estate 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 damage to Fred's Place, the Tweed Heads drop-in centre where she is based, with consistent rains swamping the space.

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

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

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

She stated the homeless were looking for any dry locations they could sleep throughout a northern NSW region already handling an alarming lack of affordable housing.

"We have actually been assisting a whole family oversleeping their cars and truck," Ms Kennedy stated.

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

The Byron Shire city government area, 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 real estate issue in the Northern Rivers and we need solutions," Ms Kennedy stated.

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

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

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

"So I desire to apologise beforehand however we need to draw a really clear and understood line."

More than 10,000 people were under emergency cautions in NSW on Monday morning, while 1800 people were isolated by floodwaters.

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

Major flood cautions were still in location for parts of the Clarence and Richmond rivers, while were under method elsewhere.

In Pottsville, between Tweed Heads and Byron Bay, a whale carcass was among the debris that washed up after substantial swells damaged the coastline for days.

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

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

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

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