Mehmet Ari Botani and Tara Zerya Botani in Alexandria, Va., where they recently bought a condominium with a budget of less than $400,000. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The New York Times

Mehmet Ari Botani and Tara Zerya Botani both grew up in Turkey, where they faced a longstanding culture of discrimination as children of Kurdish descent. When they met in college, they bonded over a shared dream of making a home in America.