In Bega's Littleton Gardens on Wednesday, April 17, as part of Youth Homelessness Matters Day South East Women And Children Services (SEWACS) planted 92 pictures of couches in the lawn to represent the 92 couch surfing youths they had assisted in the region over the past year.

But SEWACS program manager Kylie Furnell said it was hard to tell what the accurate number of homeless people was in the Bega Valley, as often people did not realise that was what they were experiencing.

She said someone might be staying on a friend's couch before the friend went away, so then they would go and camp for a while, then stay with another friend. But this was still homelessness.

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Leaving homelessness was difficult, she said, as getting a rental for a young person in the Bega Valley was "nearly impossible".

"Rentals keep going up, the price of living keeps going up, but our wages don't seem to match," she said.

SEWACS case manager Skye Woolhouse said a lot of homeless people liked to get a dog for safety and company too, which made it harder to get a rental.

She said the introduction of Airbnb had also added to the problem, as there were "good homes" in the region whose owners wanted to not rent them out, but hold them for short-term holiday stays.

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Ms Woolhouse said there was often an influx of homelessness after Christmas.

"We tend to find after family occasions there will be a few ruptures," she said.

"This could be due to more stress, tension, or expectations families should be acting in a certain way."

Ms Furnell said a major issue in Bega was that the town had no youth refuge.

SEWACS has to refer people to Moruya, which meant taking them away from any support they had in the Bega Valley.

She called on the NSW government to fund a youth refuge model in the town. For instance, one with independent units around a hub that could be used for communal living.