'Horrendous': Shelter Closures Pour On Housing Pain

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Vulnerable residents face a battle to discover food and someplace dry to sleep when flood waters recede and short-lived shelters shut.

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

Kim Kennedy, Vinnies' regional housing and homelessness supervisor for northeast NSW, has actually been on the front lines 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 continuous rainfall flooding the space.

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

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

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

She stated the homeless were looking for any dry places they could sleep across a northern NSW region currently dealing with a dire shortage of budget-friendly housing.

"We've been assisting an entire family sleeping in their cars and truck," Ms Kennedy stated.

"Seeing them in this horrendous weather condition is truly terrible."

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

"We definitely do have a real estate problem in the Northern Rivers and we require services," Ms Kennedy said.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said evacuation centres established in schools, universities, fitness centers and clubs could not act as a long-lasting repair to entrenched housing issues in the region.

"I am fully knowledgeable about the substantial obstacles for housing in the Northern Rivers, however evacuation centres are not permanent solutions ... we do not have the resources, the staffing, the time, the allotment," he stated.

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

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

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

About 10,000 homes and businesses 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 way in other places.

In Pottsville, in between Tweed Heads and Byron Bay, a whale carcass was amongst the debris that washed up after big swells battered the shoreline for days.

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

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated the monetary support would be backed by psychological health services for affected locations.

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