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Hillary Clinton stopped for a breakfast event this morning at Home of Chicken and Waffles, a popular black-owned restaurant in Oakland, California, the city Donald Trump recently called one of the “most dangerous” places in the world.

Sitting at a restaurant table with biscuits in front of her and diners with breakfast plates behind her, the former secretary of state discussed gentrification and displacement, the Bay Area housing crisis, and job opportunities for the formerly incarcerated.

“We have a big problem in affordable housing and in keeping neighborhood character and opportunities for people who have been living in Oakland for years,” Clinton said.

Sam Levin (@SamTLevin) .@HillaryClinton is getting breakfast here in Oakland today pic.twitter.com/Cl2Mkf6SCx

“There are advantages, of course, to fixing up neighborhoods, but it’s a big price to pay” if people are displaced, she added. “How do we help to support the existing neighborhoods?”

“Our cities are great magnets for people to move in,” she continued. “They are driving the market up.”

In attendance was Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf, who made headlines last week when she tweeted that “the most dangerous place in America is Donald Trump’s mouth”.

Libby Schaaf (@LibbySchaaf) Let me be clear, regarding @nytimes story, the most dangerous place in America is Donald Trump's mouth.

Oakland has one of the fastest rising rents of any city in the US.

“We are ground zero of the affordability crisis,” Schaaf said, noting that the city was focused on building more housing. “We don’t want to build a wall around our city.”

“It would be great if Oakland could show the way,” Clinton said, adding that she didn’t realize there was such a great disparity in housing affordability and rising costs here.

The mayor and presidential candidate also discussed efforts to “ban the box” - initiatives to help ensure that formerly incarcerated people aren’t denied job opportunities because of their criminal records. A majority of employees of Home of Chicken and Waffles employs are people who have criminal convictions on their record.

“Because of rules and regulations, a lot of people are denied housing,” Clinton said, adding that she supports initiatives that provide opportunities for people reentering society after prison. “Law enforcement has a big stake in supporting these kinds of programs,” she said, adding to restaurant owner Derreck Johnson, “I really applaud you for giving people the confidence and support they need.”

Schaaf told the Guardian earlier that she felt obligated to respond to Trump and stand up for Oakland, the city across the bay from San Francisco.

“I’m not just being funny when I say Donald Trump’s mouth is the most dangerous place in America,” she said. “When you have someone at that level saying things that are so ignorant, so mean-spirited, so factually inaccurate and insulting, that is dangerous.”

Schaaf said Trump’s negative comments about crime in Oakland and Ferguson, Missouri were clearly racist.

“Oaklanders are sick and tired of being tainted in this negative, one-dimensional light. There are so many great things about this city. And I also believe there is a racist undertone to Trump’s comments - the fact that he picked Oakland and Ferguson - two cities seen as predominantly African-American cities.”

The California primary is 7 June.