Inventory (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2019

Inventory at January 31, 2019 and October 31, 2018 consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):



	January 31, 2019		October 31, 2018
Land controlled for future communities	$	156,731	$	139,985
Land owned for future communities	1,088,128		916,616
Operating communities	6,469,784		6,541,618
	$	7,714,643	$	7,598,219

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, 2019		October 31, 2018
Land owned for future communities:
Number of communities	17		17
Carrying value (in thousands)	$	124,315	$	124,426
Operating communities:
Number of communities	1		1
Carrying value (in thousands)	$	2,625	$	2,622

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,
	2019		2018
Land controlled for future communities	$	1,777	$	117
Operating communities	5,785		3,736
	$	7,562	$	3,853

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,
	2019			2018
Interest capitalized, beginning of period	$	319,364		$	352,049
Interest incurred	44,422			38,687
Interest expensed to home sales cost of revenues	(34,441		)	(33,885		)
Interest expensed to land sales cost of revenues	(352		)	—
Interest expensed in other income	—			(716		)
Interest capitalized on investments in unconsolidated entities	(1,814		)	(1,711		)
Previously capitalized interest on investments in unconsolidated entities transferred to inventory	2,988			72
Interest capitalized, end of period	$	330,167		$	354,496