What constitutes the legacy of welfare regimes? In contemporary debates two issues emerge more than any other. Fundamentally, does social citizenship decrease the convexity of class? – or otherwise presented – could capitalist society be radically revolutionized by the welfare state? And secondly, what are the pillars that support the development of the welfare state? (Esping-Andersen, 1990). The essay will proceed by presenting Gøsta Esping-Andersen's welfare regimes and their characteristics and will attempt to analyze their influence regarding social housing. Furthermore, it will narrow the focus to the British liberal welfare regime – according to Gøsta Esping-Andersen – and subsequently establish the bona fide implications of the declaration, with respect to social housing. What is the welfare state? According to Esping-Andersen (1990) “this implies the responsibility of the State to guarantee a minimum basic well-being to its citizens”. However, this so-called definition fails to cover basic concepts such as eligibility, citizenship status, work life, and the quality of services and benefits. Barr (2001) perceives the welfare state as an apparatus for inequality as it acts like an illegal Robin Hood that seeks to shift the balance towards poverty and need, thus attempting to reduce discrepancies in welfare. Esping-Andersen created the concept of a welfare state regime, which can be defined as a “complex system of legal, institutional, and well-interwoven social policy arrangements.” (Lennartz, 2010). It describes three distinct welfare state regimes and each can be differentiated based on the degree of de-commodification. After looking at 18 OECD countries, Esping-Andersen classifies them as follows: the social...... middle of paper ......re that post-war housing and welfare states have gone through notable transitions and they have a complex relationship and secondly, in the 1980s housing in Britain was seen as the shaky pillar of the welfare state. Britain appears to generally apply some liberal welfare state classifications that feature features such as income-based benefits that ultimately lead to stigmatization, and dispensed benefits that are usually targeted at people who fall into the poor category, thus leaving a gap in citizenship coverage . A new hybrid liberal welfare state structure appears to apply to the UK, allowing further authority for the state. The article concludes by asking to what extent the Three Worlds of Welfare still exist in modern society and to what extent the liberal regime actually influenced 20th century Britain and its policies..