b. The tenant in good faith took action to secure or enforce against
the landlord or his agents any rights under the lease or rental
agreement, the warranty of habitability under section two hundred
thirty-five-b of this article, the duty to repair under sections
seventy-eight, seventy-nine, and eighty of the multiple dwelling law or
section one hundred seventy-four of the multiple residence law, or under
any other law of the state of New York, or of its governmental
subdivisions, or of the United States which has as its objective the
regulation of premises used for dwelling purposes or which pertains to
the offense of rent gouging in the third, second or first degree.