Mayor of Boston
See also: Desegregation busing in the United States#Boston, MassachusettsWhite successfully ran for the open mayoral office in 1967, winning his first election with a coalition of Italian, liberal and black voters. White campaigned for rent control; one of his slogans was "When landlords raise rents, Kevin White raises hell." Rent control was implemented in Boston in 1970, after a Massachusetts enabling law for municipalities was enacted in 1970.
White succeeded mayor John F. Collins, who stepped down after eight years that included urban renewal projects, and the planning and building of Boston City Hall, and who had provided an example and template for the future rebuilding and rehabilitation of the waterfront, financial, and business districts of the city center that White later undertook.
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