Vulnerable residents face a fight to discover food and somewhere dry to sleep when flood waters recede and temporary shelters shut.

Nearly 800 individuals have looked for refuge in NSW evacuation centres however 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 real estate and homelessness manager for northeast NSW, has actually been on the front lines supporting individuals 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 area.

On any provided day, the centre serves about 130 hot meals to those in requirement but showers and laundry centers run out commission until the flood damage is repaired.

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

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

She said the homeless were looking for any dry locations they might sleep throughout a northern NSW region currently handling an alarming scarcity of affordable housing.

"We have actually been assisting out an entire family oversleeping their vehicle," Ms Kennedy said.

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

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 government street count.

"We definitely do have a housing issue in the Northern Rivers and we need solutions," Ms Kennedy said.

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

"I am fully familiar with the considerable difficulties for real estate in the Northern Rivers, but evacuation centres are not permanent solutions ... we do not have the resources, the staffing, the time, the allocation," he stated.

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

"So I want to apologise ahead of time however we have to draw a very clear and understood line."

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

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

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

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

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

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