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Vulnerable homeowners face a fight to find food and somewhere dry to sleep when flood waters recede and short-term 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 effect of ex-tropical cyclone Alfred passes.

Kim Kennedy, Vinnies' local and homelessness manager for northeast NSW, has been on the front lines supporting people 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 continuous rainfall flooding the space.

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

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

"It has been really difficult trying to get them any kind of shelter."

She said the homeless were looking for any dry places they could sleep across a northern NSW region already handling an alarming lack of inexpensive housing.

"We have actually been assisting a whole household sleeping in their vehicle," Ms Kennedy stated.

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

The Byron Shire local federal 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 real estate problem in the Northern Rivers and we require options," Ms Kennedy stated.

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 entrenched real estate issues in the area.

"I am completely familiar with the considerable obstacles for housing in the Northern Rivers, but evacuation centres are not long-term solutions ... we do not have the resources, the staffing, the time, the allowance," he stated.

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

"So I wish to apologise ahead of time but we need to draw a very 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 locations.

Major flood cautions were still in location for parts of the Clarence and Richmond rivers, while clean-up operations were under way in other places.

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 local government locations who had actually lost income due to the storm would be eligible for federal disaster relief funds for approximately 13 weeks, it was revealed on Monday.

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

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

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