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Inventory (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2019
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] |
Inventory | Inventory at October 31, 2019 and 2018 consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):
| 2019 |  | 2018
Land controlled for future communities | $ | 182,929 |  |  | $ | 139,985 |
Land owned for future communities | 868,202 |  |  | 916,616 |
Operating communities | 6,821,917 |  |  | 6,541,618 |
| $ | 7,873,048 |  |  | $ | 7,598,219 |
Temporarily Closed communities | Information regarding the classification, number, and carrying value of these temporarily closed communities at October 31, 2019, 2018, and 2017, is provided in the table below ($ amounts in thousands):
| 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Land owned for future communities: |  |  |  |  |
Number of communities | 16 |  |  | 17 |  |  | 14 |
Carrying value (in thousands) | $ | 120,857 |  |  | $ | 124,426 |  |  | $ | 110,732 |
Operating communities: |  |  |  |  |
Number of communities | 1 |  |  | 1 |  |  | 6 |
Carrying value (in thousands) | $ | 2,871 |  |  | $ | 2,622 |  |  | $ | 26,749 |
Inventory impairment charges and expensing of costs that it is believed not to be recoverable | We provided for inventory impairment charges and the expensing of costs that we believed not to be recoverable in each of the three fiscal years ended October 31, 2019, 2018, and 2017, as shown in the table below (amounts in thousands):
Charge: | 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Land controlled for future communities | $ | 11,285 |  |  | $ | 2,820 |  |  | $ | 1,949 |
Land owned for future communities | — |  |  | 2,185 |  |  | 3,050 |
Operating communities | 31,075 |  |  | 30,151 |  |  | 9,795 |
| $ | 42,360 |  |  | $ | 35,156 |  |  | $ | 14,794 |
Interest incurred, capitalized and expensed | Interest incurred, capitalized, and expensed in each of the three fiscal years ended October 31, 2019, 2018, and 2017, was as follows (amounts in thousands):
| 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Interest capitalized, beginning of year | $ | 319,364 |  |  | $ | 352,049 |  |  | $ | 369,419 |
Interest incurred | 178,035 |  |  | 165,977 |  |  | 175,944 |
Interest expensed to home sales cost of revenues | (185,045 | ) |  | (190,734 | ) |  | (172,832 | )
Interest expensed to land sales cost of revenues | (1,787 | ) |  |  |  |  |  |
Interest expensed in other income |  |  |  | (3,760 | ) |  | (4,823 | )
Interest reclassified to property, construction and office equipment |  |  |  |  |  |  | (485 | )
Interest capitalized on investments in unconsolidated entities | (4,571 | ) |  | (7,220 | ) |  | (8,824 | )
Previously capitalized interest transferred to investments in unconsolidated entities |  |  |  |  |  |  | (8,708 | )
Previously capitalized interest on investments in unconsolidated entities transferred to inventory | 5,327 |  |  | 3,052 |  |  | 2,358 |
Interest capitalized, end of year | $ | 311,323 |  |  | $ | 319,364 |  |  | $ | 352,049 |

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