Why Bay Area homeless sweeps no longer hinge on big events like the Super Bowl

San Francisco swept homeless camps downtown when the Bay Area last hosted the Super Bowl in 2016. Before last year’s big game in New Orleans, authorities relocated homeless people away from the Superdome to a warehouse miles away, citing “safety and security.”

This time, Bay Area leaders say they won’t do anything different at all.

As Super Bowl LX brings a national spotlight and a surge of fans and celebrities to the region this weekend, officials in San Jose, San Francisco and...