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‘Horrendous’: Shelter Closures Pour On Housing Pain

Vulnerable homeowners deal with 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 sanctuary in NSW evacuation centres but their status as pop-up homes for some will disappear after the effect of Alfred passes.

Kim Kennedy, Vinnies’ regional housing and homelessness supervisor for northeast NSW, has been on the cutting edge supporting individuals sleeping rough in flooded zones.

Her job 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 swamping the space.

On any offered 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 been a horrendous time for the homeless community,” Ms Kennedy informed AAP.

“It has actually been really tough trying to get them any type of shelter.”

She said the homeless were searching for any dry locations they might sleep throughout a northern NSW area currently handling a dire lack of inexpensive real estate.

“We have actually been assisting out an entire family oversleeping their automobile,” Ms Kennedy stated.

“Seeing them in this horrendous weather condition is truly terrible.”

The Byron Shire local 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 definitely do have a real estate issue in the Northern Rivers and we need options,” Ms Kennedy stated.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said evacuation centres established in schools, universities, gyms and clubs could not act as a long-lasting fix to established housing problems in the area.

“I am completely familiar with the substantial challenges for housing in the Northern Rivers, however evacuation centres are not long-term services … we don’t have the resources, the staffing, the time, the allocation,” he said.

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

“So I want to apologise in advance but we need to draw a really clear and understood line.”

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

About 10,000 homes and companies were still not connected to power as heavy rain continued to fall in many locations.

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

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

Residents from 17 NSW regional government areas who had actually lost income 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 psychological 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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