On paper, she's a potential litigant — one of many across the country taking legal action against landlord Global Ministries Foundation and real estate conglomerate Millennia Housing Management.

But standing in front of her South Florida apartment in a low-income housing project in Riviera Beach, Nikita Felder-Davis is a woman asking the courts to take a closer look. 

That's been the hardest part, Felder-Davis and other residents say — getting officials to pay attention to Stonybrook, a sprawling apartment complex just north of a row of multimillion-dollar mansions in affluent Palm Beach County.