Inventory (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2016

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