Vulnerable homeowners deal with a fight to discover food and somewhere dry to sleep when flood waters recede and short-term shelters shut.

Nearly 800 people have actually looked for sanctuary in NSW evacuation centres however their status as pop-up homes for some will cease to exist after the impact of ex-tropical cyclone Alfred passes.

Kim Kennedy, Vinnies' local real estate and homelessness manager for northeast NSW, has actually been on the front lines supporting individuals sleeping rough in flooded zones.

Her task was made harder on Monday due to harm to Fred's Place, the Tweed Heads drop-in centre where she is based, with consistent rains flooding the area.

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

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

"It has been actually tough trying to get them any kind of shelter."

She stated the homeless were searching for any dry locations they could sleep throughout a northern NSW region already handling a dire lack of inexpensive real estate.

"We've been helping out an entire household oversleeping their vehicle," Ms Kennedy stated.

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

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 said.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said evacuation centres set up in schools, universities, health clubs and clubs might not work as a long-lasting fix to entrenched real estate issues in the region.

"I am totally familiar with the considerable difficulties for real estate in the Northern Rivers, but evacuation centres are not permanent solutions ... we don't have the resources, the staffing, the time, the allocation," he said.

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

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

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

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

cautions were still in place for parts of the Clarence and Richmond rivers, while clean-up operations were under method somewhere else.

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

Residents from 17 NSW city government locations who had lost earnings due to the storm would be qualified for federal disaster relief funds for as much as 13 weeks, it was announced on Monday.

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

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

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