A housing for receiving a cable drum of an adjustment device for a motor vehicle which comprises a peripheral surface with guide means for a tractive means encircling the cable drum. The housing comprises a bearing point for rotatably mounting a cable drum, at least one wall of the housing which encompasses the cable drum along the peripheral surface thereof when said cable drum is mounted in the housing, and a securing element which is arranged in the region of the wall of the housing and which serves to secure a tractive means, extending along the peripheral surface of a cable drum to be mounted in the housing. The securing element is elastically configured and may be moved by deformation in the radial direction in relation to the bearing point.