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Vulnerable locals face a battle to find food and someplace dry to sleep when flood waters decline and short-lived shelters shut.

Nearly 800 people have actually sought sanctuary in NSW evacuation centres but 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 housing and homelessness supervisor 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 consistent rains inundating the area.

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

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

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

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

"We've been assisting an entire household oversleeping their car," Ms Kennedy stated.

"Seeing them in this horrendous weather condition is truly 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 federal government street count.

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

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

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

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

"So I want to apologise in advance but we need to draw a very clear and understood line."

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

About 10,000 homes and services were still not connected 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 particles that washed up after substantial swells battered the shoreline for days.

from 17 NSW city government areas who had actually lost earnings due to the storm would be qualified for federal catastrophe relief funds for up to 13 weeks, it was revealed on Monday.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated the financial backing would be backed by psychological health services for affected areas.

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

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