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City planners have adopted gentrification led by creatives as a development strategy, but this has led to socioeconomic inequalities and spatial segregation of rich and poor within cities. Richard Florida, a proponent of creative gentrification, has recanted his earlier views, stating that it generates a lopsided, unequal urbanism. Gentrification has led to the social entrenchment of income and wealth concentration, displacement, rent rises, and cultural homogenisation. The art field has become an attractor for capital and municipal investment, rather than a spoiler, presenting a dilemma for critically-minded artists. Urban policy makers now recognize gentrification as a core problem and seek to protect spaces and rents for low-income sectors, but this may not challenge the basic premise of creative-led gentrification. The interests of non-creative populations with historical claims to urban sites are not considered, and the art field's interests lie in maintaining the poverty trap.