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Inventory (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Jan. 31, 2016
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] |
Inventory | Inventory at January 31, 2016 and October 31, 2015 consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):
| January 31, 2016 |  | October 31, 2015
Land controlled for future communities | $ | 78,191 |  |  | $ | 75,214 |
Land owned for future communities | 1,913,008 |  |  | 2,033,447 |
Operating communities | 5,188,851 |  |  | 4,888,855 |
| $ | 7,180,050 |  |  | $ | 6,997,516 |
Temporarily Closed communities | Information regarding the classification, number, and carrying value of these temporarily closed communities, as of the dates indicated, is provided in the table below.
| January 31, 2016 |  | October 31, 2015
Land owned for future communities: |  |  |
Number of communities | 21 |  |  | 15 |
Carrying value (in thousands) | $ | 144,979 |  |  | $ | 119,138 |
Operating communities: |  |  |
Number of communities | 7 |  |  | 11 |
Carrying value (in thousands) | $ | 39,901 |  |  | $ | 63,668 |
Inventory impairment charges and expensing of costs that it is believed not to be recoverable | The amounts we have provided for inventory impairment charges and the expensing of costs that we believed not to be recoverable, for the periods indicated, are shown in the table below (amounts in thousands):
| Three months ended January 31,
| 2016 |  | 2015
Land controlled for future communities | $ | 381 |  |  | $ | 244 |
Land owned for future communities | 300 |  |  |  |
Operating communities | 600 |  |  | 900 |
| $ | 1,281 |  |  | $ | 1,144 |
Interest incurred, capitalized and expensed | Interest incurred, capitalized, and expensed, for the periods indicated, was as follows (amounts in thousands):
| Three months ended January 31,
| 2016 |  | 2015
Interest capitalized, beginning of period | $ | 373,128 |  |  | $ | 356,180 |
Interest incurred | 40,107 |  |  | 40,504 |
Interest expensed to cost of revenues | (32,023 | ) |  | (28,377 | )
Write-off against other income | (275 | ) |  | (1,328 | )
Interest capitalized on investments in unconsolidated entities | (1,007 | ) |  | (2,751 | )
Interest capitalized, end of period | $ | 379,930 |  |  | $ | 364,228 |

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