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

Nearly 800 individuals have actually 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 and homelessness manager 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 damage to Fred's Place, the Tweed Heads drop-in centre where she is based, with constant rainfall flooding the space.

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

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

"It has been really tough attempting to get them any type of shelter."

She said the homeless were searching for any dry places they might sleep throughout a northern NSW area already dealing with a dire shortage of economical real estate.

"We've been assisting an entire household sleeping in 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 location in the state, according to a 2024 government street count.

"We absolutely do have a housing issue in the Northern Rivers and we require services," Ms Kennedy said.

NSW Premier Chris Minns stated evacuation centres set up in schools, universities, fitness centers and clubs might not function as a long-lasting repair to established housing problems in the region.

"I am completely mindful of the substantial challenges for real estate in the Northern Rivers, however evacuation centres are not long-term services ... we don't have the resources, the staffing, the time, the allowance," he said.

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

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

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

About 10,000 homes and businesses were still not connected to power as heavy rain continued to fall in lots of 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 among the debris that cleaned up after big swells damaged the shoreline for days.

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

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

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

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