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Vulnerable residents deal with a battle to find food and someplace dry to sleep when flood waters decline and momentary shelters shut.

Nearly 800 individuals have actually looked for haven in NSW evacuation centres but their status as pop-up homes for some will cease to exist after the effect of ex-tropical cyclone .

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 rainfall inundating the space.

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

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

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

She stated the homeless were looking for any dry places they might sleep across a northern NSW area currently dealing with an alarming shortage of affordable real estate.

"We've been assisting an entire family sleeping in their automobile," Ms Kennedy said.

"Seeing them in this horrendous weather condition is actually awful."

The Byron Shire regional government location, south of Tweed Heads, had the most rough sleepers of any council area in the state, according to a 2024 federal government street count.

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

NSW Premier Chris Minns said evacuation centres set up in schools, universities, fitness centers and clubs could not work as a long-lasting fix to entrenched housing problems in the region.

"I am fully familiar with the substantial challenges for real estate in the Northern Rivers, but evacuation centres are not long-term solutions ... we do not have the resources, the staffing, the time, the allocation," he said.

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

"So I wish to apologise in advance however we have to draw a very clear and understood line."

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

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

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 amongst the particles that cleaned up after substantial swells damaged the shoreline for days.

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

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

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

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