Inventory (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2019

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



	July 31, 2019		October 31, 2018
Land controlled for future communities	$	167,479	$	139,985
Land owned for future communities	938,861		916,616
Operating communities	6,888,736		6,541,618
	$	7,995,076	$	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:



	July 31, 2019		October 31, 2018
Land owned for future communities:
Number of communities	15		17
Carrying value (in thousands)	$	104,508	$	124,426
Operating communities:
Number of communities	2		1
Carrying value (in thousands)	$	19,411	$	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 believe not to be recoverable, for the periods indicated, are shown in the table below (amounts in thousands):



	Nine months ended July 31,				Three months ended July 31,
	2019		2018		2019		2018
Land controlled for future communities	$	7,256	$	1,073	$	3,579	$	696
Land owned for future communities			1,547				1,300
Operating communities	24,380		26,126		1,100		9,065
	$	31,636	$	28,746	$	4,679	$	11,061

Interest incurred, capitalized and expensed

Interest incurred, capitalized, and expensed, for the periods indicated, was as follows (amounts in thousands):



	Nine months ended July 31,						Three months ended July 31,
	2019			2018			2019			2018
Interest capitalized, beginning of period	$	319,364		$	352,049		$	328,583		$	349,918
Interest incurred	131,830			123,028			43,968			41,760
Interest expensed to home sales cost of revenues	(125,862		)	(128,915		)	(46,635		)	(50,003		)
Interest expensed to land sales cost of revenues	(945		)				(310		)
Interest expensed in other income				(2,259		)				(1,259		)
Interest capitalized on investments in unconsolidated entities	(3,936		)	(5,423		)	(852		)	(1,821		)
Previously capitalized interest on investments in unconsolidated entities transferred to inventory	4,802			1,687			499			1,572
Interest capitalized, end of period	$	325,253		$	340,167		$	325,253		$	340,167