Award winning housing association United Welsh will be creating 23 homes on the former Infants School site in Sirhowy.
The development has received Welsh Government funding of just under £2.1m from the Social Housing Grant Programme.
Working in partnership with Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council and Pendragon, United Welsh will be developing 4 one-bedroom apartments, 2 two-bedroom apartments, 13 two-bedroom houses and 4 three-bedroom houses, at a cost of over £2.8m.
United Welsh Group Director of Operations Richard Mann said: “We are delighted to be working with Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council and the Welsh Government to provide these much-needed new homes.
“It is very rewarding to keep delivering sustainable homes for local people and creating new communities.”
Cllr Dai Davies, Executive Member for Regeneration and Economic Development at Blaenau Gwent Council Said, “I am pleased to welcome yet another first-class housing development from United Welsh to the county borough.”