Gov. Charlie Baker will make housing production a central theme of a speech he is slated to deliver to business leaders on Tuesday morning as the governor prepares to file new legislation, possibly as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday, to relax zoning controls in cities and towns.

The legislation the governor is preparing to file will be substantially similar to a bill he pushed hard for last session to make it easier for municipalities to waive zoning restrictions in order to facilitate the production of new housing units.

While that effort failed to pass the legislature last session, the governor is hoping to keep together a coalition of support that included the real estate industry, housing advocates and the Massachusetts Municipal Association, according someone familiar with the strategy.

Baker will address the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday at the Westin Copley Hotel where a senior administration official said the governor will discuss “housing and housing legislation.” He is also expected to speak about his plan to overhaul the way the state funds public education.

In his second inaugural address in January, the governor seemed to double down on his legislation. Noting that over the past 20 years Massachusetts has produced “less than half” of the housing units that had been custom for the prior four decades, Baker said limited inventory was responsible for driving housing prices “out of sight” and forcing workers to live further away from job hubs like Boston.

“I believe that our housing bill was a strong step in the right direction to deal with this,” he said. “It respected the need for communities to plan for themselves, but created incentives to tie development more closely to overarching strategies concerning transportation and land use generally. In the end, it failed because it was too much for some and not enough for others.”

“We shouldn’t let the perfect become the enemy of the good,” Baker said.

A senior administration official said that the governor would be filing something that “closely resembles the previous bill.”

The bill filed last session would have lowered the threshold for a local government authority to waive zoning restrictions for a particular project to a majority vote. The administration estimated it would lead to the creation of 135,000 new units by 2025.

The bill, however, failed to surface for a vote in either the House or Senate. One of the obstacles it encountered in the legislature was the desire among some progressive Democratic lawmakers to pass a more expansive zoning reform, who kept Baker’s proposal stalled in committee.

Any housing legislation will have to first move through the Joint Committee on Housing, which will be co-chaired this session by state Rep. Kevin Honan, D-Boston. and state Rep. Brendan Crighton, D-Lynn. Honan is a returning chair of the committee, while housing is a new assignment for Crighton in his first full term in the Senate.

Honan and state Sen. Joseph Boncore, D-Winthrop have filed their own legislation that would require cities and towns to plan at least one district where multi-family housing could be built by right, a mandate that would only apply to municipalities with land within a half-mile of MBTA stations or bus routes that are part of frequently traveled routes.

The Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association said that Massachusetts has one of the lowest rates of housing production in the nation, and that local zoning is a key barrier to production.

According to data from The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman, only 3,230 single-family homes were sold in January 2019, a 10.2 percent drop from the same time last year and 11.5 percent down from January 2017. This follows steady declines in the number of yearly single-family sales in the state, and a corresponding increase in home prices. The statewide median sale price for a single-family home in January 2019 was $367,000.